Farms in six districts of Belarus have completed the sowing of early grain and leguminous crops

April 10, Minsk / Olga Belyavskaya - BELTA /. Farms in six districts of Belarus have completed sowing of early grain and leguminous crops, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Belarus informed a BELTA correspondent. Sowing of early grain and leguminous crops has been completed in Bragin, Yel'sk, Narovlya, Oktyabrsky, Khoiniki districts of Gomel region, as well as in Brest district. In the rest of the country's districts, sowing is in full swing. In general, across the republic, spring grain and leguminous crops (excluding corn) have been sown on 403.5 thousand hectares, which is 39% of the plan. At the same time, the highest sowing rates are observed in Gomel (78%), Brest (70%), Grodno (58%) regions. In Minsk region, sowing has been carried out on 30% of the planned areas, Mogilev region - 12%, Vitebsk region - 9%. 16 million tons of organic fertilizers have been applied to an area of 292 thousand hectares for spring sowing. Out of 2.1 thousand energy-saturated tractors available in Belarus, about 1.8 thousand are involved in sowing, with 719 of them working only one shift. "Currently, specialists of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food are investigating the reasons for the downtime of equipment in individual farms; this issue is under the personal control of the minister," the agricultural department noted. "At the same time, the distribution of agricultural machinery has been suspended to those agricultural enterprises where energy-saturated tractors are working in one shift." -0-