Belarusian farms have completed flax sowing

May 4, Minsk / Olga Belyavskaya - BELTA /. Belarusian farms have completed flax sowing. As of today, this crop occupies over 65 thousand hectares, which is almost 100% of the plan, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food told a BELTA correspondent. Farms in the Brest, Gomel, and Minsk regions were the first to complete flax sowing. In general, across the republic, flax sowing was carried out within optimal agro-technical terms, and if weather conditions do not interfere, farmers expect a good harvest of this crop this year. Sowing of spring rapeseed continues. It occupies 18.5 thousand hectares of sown area, which is 68% of the plan. In the Minsk region, sowing of this crop is fully completed, in the Vitebsk region, 78% of the planned area has been sown, in the Grodno region - 50%, in the Gomel region - 46.7%, and in the Mogilev region - 18%. Most farms have begun treating winter rapeseed against the rape blossom beetle. Corn sowing is actively underway. Currently, this crop is planted on about half of the planned area (391 thousand hectares). Leaders in corn sowing rates are farms in the Gomel and Brest regions. This year, agricultural organizations plan to sow 803.7 thousand hectares of corn, which is at the level of last year, including 159.8 thousand hectares for grain technology. Potatoes have been planted on 35.8 thousand hectares, which is 68% of the planned area. At the same time, in the Grodno region, this crop occupies 88% of the areas allocated for it, in the Brest region - 83%, in the Gomel region - 80%, in the Minsk region - 58%, in the Mogilev region - 56%, and in the Vitebsk region - 34%. -0-