Sowing winter cereals in the Minsk region scheduled to be completed by 28 September. The Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and Food, Minsk Oblast Executive Committee Alexander Pleshevich.
According to operative data, winter grains sown on 96.8 thousand hectares. Including wheat - 63 thousand hectares. Triticale - by 25.5 thousand hectares. Rye - by 7.2 thousand hectares. Barley - more than 1 thousand. hectares. Thus, the work carried out on 37.3% of the planned area. Daily rate of sowing is around 5%. The most actively sowing is carried out in the Berezina, Borisov and Slutsk areas.
Minsk Region farmers continue harvesting potatoes. Under the second bread in the area set aside for about 12 thousand hectares. Potatoes already been cleaned with 3.7 thousand hectares. Including farms - with 945 hectares. Already dug up 94.4 thousand. Tons of potatoes, the yield remained at the previous year - 255 kg / ha. "The highest yield observed in farms Nesvizhsky (399 kg / ha), Logoysky (377 kg / ha), Slutsky (322 kg / ha) areas.
Work is also harvesting corn for green fodder and silage. Removed 40.8 thousand. Hectares, or 23%. Two areas - Niesvizh Soligorskiy - started harvesting corn for grain.
Furthermore, in the region began cleaning of sugar beet. Removed the 1.4 thousand. Hectares, or 4% of the planned area. As noted by Alexander Pleshevich, evaluate yield this year is too early, but it is expected that it will come true is not below the level of last year.