Farms in the Vitebsk region have begun selective flax pulling

July 18, Vitebsk / Sergey Kochetov - BELTA/. Farms in the Vitebsk region have begun selective flax pulling, the Agriculture and Food Committee of the regional executive committee informed a BELTA correspondent.

As of July 18, the work has been carried out on an area of 700 hectares, which is about 4% of the sown area. All flax processing plants have started pulling.

The harvesting of grain and leguminous crops is gaining momentum in the region, with almost all districts involved except for Verkhnedvinsky, Dubrovensky, and Rossonsky. A total of almost 3 thousand hectares have been mowed, and over 9 thousand tons of grain have been threshed with an average yield of 31.6 centners per hectare. Farms in the Chashniksky district were the first in the region to start delivering grain for the state order, supplying over 200 tons of food wheat to grain reception points. In total, in 2011, agricultural organizations need to supply about 186 thousand tons of grain under the state order, including 135 thousand tons for grain processing plants.

In addition, farms in the Dokshitsky, Gluboksky, and Gorodoksky districts have supplied the first 150 tons of rapeseed for seeds under the state order. In total, winter cruciferous crops have been harvested in the region over an area of more than 1.2 thousand hectares, with over 1.5 thousand tons threshed at an average yield of 12.4 centners per hectare.

The second mowing of grasses for feed has been carried out on an area of over 28 thousand hectares, or almost 22% of the target. About 700 thousand tons of feed units have been procured, with a feed provision of 15 centners of feed units per conventional head of livestock. -0-