Farms in the Vitebsk region are completing the sowing of sugar beet and carrots

May 10, Vitebsk / Sergey Kochetov - BELTA/. Farms in the Vitebsk region have sown vegetable crops on a total area of over 1.1 thousand hectares, which is 62% of the plan. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the committee for agriculture and food of the regional executive committee. Sowing of sugar beet has been practically completed, this crop now occupies almost 290 hectares (96% of the plan). Carrots have been sown on an area of almost 260 hectares (about 74%). The current pace (about 10% of the plan per day) will allow the completion of carrot sowing within the next two to three days. Green peas already occupy about 400 hectares (over 56%). Cabbage has been sown on 130 hectares (37%). In addition, potato planting is underway, with over 4 thousand hectares planted, which is over 40% of the plan, considering the expansion of areas for this crop to 10 thousand hectares. Today, chemical weeding of crops is actively underway in the region. This type of work has been carried out on almost 70 thousand hectares of winter cereals (over 70%). In parallel, farms are starting chemical weeding of spring cereals and corn, which has been sown on 57 thousand hectares (57%), and are also working on pest control for flax and spring rapeseed crops. In addition, farmers are actively preparing the material and technical base for fodder harvesting, which is planned to begin at the end of May. In general, farms in the region have completed spring sowing and reseeding of winter crops that perished, which has been carried out on an area of 437.5 thousand hectares (including reseeding), including cereals and legumes sown on an area of 305 thousand hectares. -0-