Farms in the Vitebsk region are completing the harvest of grain and leguminous crops

August 12, Vitebsk / Sergey Kochetov - BELTA/. Farms in the Vitebsk region are completing the mass harvesting of grain and leguminous crops, a BELTA correspondent was informed at the Agriculture and Food Committee of the Regional Executive Committee. As of August 12, almost 400 thousand hectares have been mown in the region, or about 90% of the plan, with less than 5% of the areas left to be harvested in most districts. 800 thousand tons of grain have been threshed with an average yield of 20.1 centners per hectare. The Orsha district is the leader in threshing, with its farms contributing about 94 thousand tons to the regional harvest. The highest yield was also obtained here - 26.7 centners per hectare. Farms in the Dubrovno, Vitebsk and Tolochin districts threshed about 60 thousand tons of grain. The harvesting of flax is also nearing completion in the region, with 17 thousand hectares pulled, or 90.9% of the plan. Tolochin, Senno, Postavy and Dubrovno flax processing plants have already begun harvesting flax straw. The mass harvesting of spring rapeseed continues in the region, with an area of over 7.6 thousand hectares mown, or 27% of the plan. The yield of this crop is over 7.8 thousand tons with an average yield of 10.3 centners per hectare. Farms in the Orsha and Verkhnedvinsk districts are most actively carrying out this work, with 77% and almost 50% of the plan mown, respectively. Winter rapeseed has been sown on an area of 54.5 thousand hectares (63%). In addition, farms are carrying out work on plowing stubble fields and applying glyphosate for sowing winter crops. Thus, for the region as a whole, 120 thousand hectares have been plowed, or 36% of the target. Glyphosate has been applied to an area of 116 thousand hectares (58%).-0-