Farms in the Vitebsk region are completing soil preparation for sowing winter rapeseed

July 28, Vitebsk / Sergey Kotchetov - BELTA/. Farms in the Vitebsk region are completing plowing for sowing winter rapeseed for the 2012 harvest, the Agriculture and Food Committee of the regional executive committee informed a BELTA correspondent.

As of July 28, this type of preparatory work has been carried out on an area of over 40 thousand hectares, or more than 80% of the plan. This year, it is planned to allocate about 50 thousand hectares for winter rapeseed. Agrarians of the Vitebsk region plan to start sowing this crop in early August.

In addition, all farms in the region have begun to form seed funds for winter grain crops for the 2012 harvest, the total volume of which should be almost 74 thousand tons. Maintenance work for winter sowing continues, including the application of glyphosate on an area of almost 52 thousand hectares, or about 26% of the target, and about 122.5 thousand tons of organic fertilizers have been applied, which is more than 11% of the target.

At the same time, the main efforts are concentrated on the harvesting campaign. As of July 28, grain and leguminous crops have been mowed on an area of over 100 thousand hectares, or more than 22% of the areas to be harvested. More than 311 thousand tons of grain have been threshed with an average yield of 31 centners per hectare. Chashniksky district leads in the harvest, where grain crops have been mowed on almost 38% of the area to be harvested, and Gluboksky district (35%). The highest yield is in the farms of Orshansky (35.5 centners per hectare) and Beshenkovichsky (35 centners per hectare) districts. In fulfillment of the state order, the region's farms have delivered over 35 thousand tons of grain, which is about 19% of the plan. Flax has been pulled on an area of over 3.8 thousand hectares, or almost 21% of the plan.

Grasses for fodder have been mowed on an area of over 48 thousand hectares, or 37.1% of the target for the second cutting. Farms in the region have prepared about 720.2 thousand tons of fodder units, and the provision of fodder per conventional head of cattle is almost 15.5 centners of fodder units.-0-