Farms in the Vitebsk region have harvested more than a quarter of the sown areas of grain and leguminous crops

July 26, Vitebsk / Sergei Kochetov - BELTA /. Farms in the Vitebsk region have harvested almost 120 thousand hectares of grain and leguminous crops, which is 26.6% of the region's grain acreage. The region's harvesting rate has reached 5% of the sown area per day, Ivan Fedorov, Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's Agriculture and Food Committee, told a BELTA correspondent. As of July 26, farms in the region have threshed almost 305.9 thousand tons of new crop grain, with an average yield of 25.6 centners per hectare. Fieldwork is organized until midnight, combine operators are provided with three hot meals a day, and almost all machinery is involved in the harvesting, Ivan Fedorov noted. Lepel district farms are leading the harvesting, having harvested almost 34% of the sown area of grain and leguminous crops. Farms in six other districts have surpassed the 30% harvested area mark. In terms of grain yield, Orsha district is in the lead, with its farms having obtained over 5.2 thousand tons of grain with the highest yield in the region of 34.5 centners per hectare. Grain growers in Vitebsk, Verkhnedvinsk, Tolochin, and Dubrovno districts have surpassed the 3 thousand tons of grain threshed mark. In the region, flax has been pulled from an area of over 5.2 thousand hectares, which is almost 30% of the total flax field area. In addition, a comprehensive set of works is underway for straw harvesting, plowing, and glyphosate application.