The Minsk region plans to harvest a grain crop of at least 2.5
million tons in 2017, Chairman of the Minsk Oblast Executive Committee
Semyon Shapiro said at a visiting press conference for the republican
and regional media, BelTA has learned.
"This year we set a goal to get 2.5 million tons of grain." Of
course, it is difficult to predict what the weather will be in the
summer, but I think that the volume in question is really going to be
collected. On corn, "- said the head of the Minsk region.
Winter crops of cereals on the area of more than 300 thousand
hectares have well suffered the autumn-winter period. Spring sowing of
cereals and leguminous crops will be carried out on an area of more
than 200 thousand hectares. With an expected average yield of 40
centners per hectare, agrarians will be able to obtain at least 2
million tons of grain from these areas. In addition, the harvest of corn
grain is expected to be higher than in the previous year. In general,
this culture is in demand by pig farms, poultry farms, so it must be
produced more and sold to farms, Simeon Shapiro is convinced.
The central region is already discussing the question of how to
get 3 million tons of grain. According to the governor, these plans are
also realistic, but, most likely, not in 2017.
Speaking about the culture of agriculture, the chairman of the Minsk
Regional Executive Committee stressed that the quality of soil
cultivation in most areas of the Minsk region has become one of the best
in the country, and this fact is the key to a good harvest. "The heads
of the districts and farms have achieved much in recent years in the
cultivation of the soil, and now the task is to improve the quality of
work in the livestock sector," summed up Semyon Shapiro.
Written by belta.by
