Farms in the Vitebsk region are completing the harvesting of winter crops

August 5, Vitebsk / Sergey Kochetov - BELTA/. Farms in the Vitebsk region have mowed down more than 300 thousand hectares, or almost 67% of the grain acreage, including about 90% of the areas allocated for winter crops. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by Ivan Fedorov, Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's Agriculture and Food Committee. More than 664 thousand tons of grain have been threshed with an average yield of 22.1 centners per hectare. The Liozno and Senno districts are leading in harvesting rates, with 85.2% and 80.1% of the areas mowed down, respectively. Traditionally, farms in the Orsha district are leading in grain threshing, having already contributed almost 83.8 thousand tons to the regional harvest. The region is carrying out a mass harvest of spring barley; as of August 5, it has been mowed down on 55% of the areas. Also, some districts have begun harvesting spring rapeseed. Flax has been pulled on an area of more than 12.6 thousand hectares, which is almost 68% of the plan. Farms in the Dubrovno, Orsha, and Senno districts are working most actively with flax, having pulled 88%, 85.1%, and 81.5% of the sown areas for this crop, respectively. Within 4-5 days, farms in the region expect to complete work in the flax fields. Winter rapeseed has been sown on 20 thousand hectares, which is about 25% of the plan. In addition, farms continue to work on plowing the stubble fields. In total, 87 thousand hectares have been plowed in the region, or about 35% of the plan. Areas for sowing winter rapeseed have been almost completely plowed; soil is now being actively prepared for sowing winter grain crops, which is planned to begin in the third decade of August. -0-