Farms in the Vitebsk region are completing flax pulling

August 16, Vitebsk / Sergey Kochetov - BELTA/. Farms in the Vitebsk region are completing flax pulling and starting to harvest flax straw, the Agriculture and Food Committee of the Regional Executive Committee informed a BELTA correspondent.

As of August 16, flax has been pulled on an area of over 16.2 thousand hectares in the region, which is more than 90% of the plan. The largest area of flax fields (almost 2.3 thousand hectares) is in the Dubrovno district, where flax has been pulled on more than 2 thousand hectares, or about 90% of the plan. In most districts, this type of work has been completed on 90% or more of the sown areas.

The mass harvesting of grain and leguminous crops is also nearing completion in the region. As of August 16, a total of 348 thousand hectares have been mowed, or 79% of the areas to be harvested. Almost 1.1 million tons have been threshed with an average yield of 31.3 centners per hectare. The largest contribution to the regional harvest is made by farms in the Orsha district, where over 103 thousand tons of grain have been threshed, as well as by farmers in the Vitebsk district with almost 84 thousand tons threshed. In three more districts, over 70 thousand tons have been threshed in each.

Farms in the region have supplied about 162 thousand tons of grain under state orders, which is more than 87%, including the plan for malting barley, which has been fulfilled by 27.6% (about 8.3 thousand tons have been delivered to procurement agents).

Winter rapeseed has been sown on an area of 38.7 thousand hectares, or 77.5% of the planned areas, with farms in four districts having actually completed sowing operations with this oilseed crop.-0-