Committee for Agriculture and Food: First cut grass harvesting to begin in Vitebsk region next week
Vitebsk region farmers to start first mowing of grasses next week, the Committee for Agriculture and Food of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee reported.
The area for the first mowing is 240 thousand hectares. Individual farms in the southern part of the region will be the first to start harvesting them.
In total, this year, the region's farmers plan to harvest 134.3 thousand tons of hay, almost 2.3 million tons of haylage, and 2 million tons of silage.
Corn sowing continues in the region. This crop already occupies 97 thousand hectares, or 81% of the plan. Sowing is almost complete in the Dokshitsky district (98% of the plan), followed closely by the Tolochinsky, Lepelsky, and Chashniksky districts, with only 6% of the area remaining.
The rainy weather that has set in this week has become a restraining factor for farmers in the northern region.