In the Voronezh region, the harvest will begin in mid-July

On Wednesday, July 4, at a meeting of the regional government on the results of the sowing campaign and upcoming harvests, Aleksandr Kvasov, head of the region's agrarian policy department, said that over the area of 1,700,000 percent spring crops to plan. And 74.5% of the seeds are selected .. And mineral fertilizers contributed even more than expected, 8 percent – 280 000 tons. Spraying of winter crops to improve grain quality has been carried out throughout the seeded area – 740 000 hectares. The greatest attention has been paid to these districts of Ostrogozhsky, Nizhnedevitsky and Kalacheevsky

Given the state of the crops, it is expected to harvest four million tons of cereals

129 000 hectares (93.4% of the plan). During the next season, the factories plan to buy 5.5 million tons of sugar. Today, the weight of the root from which the sweet product is obtained is on average 59 grams, or 18 grams less than last year.

The harvesting campaign will begin at the end of the second dekad of July. It is necessary to deliver 1,467,000 hectares of cereals and pulses to grain elevators. They will be cleaned by 3,615 combines. The diesel farms in the area are provided with 75%, gasoline – 55%.

The Ministry of Agriculture of Russia plans to offset part of the cost of fuel. For this, the villagers received 5 billion rubles from the federal budget. Can offset one liter of fuel purchased or per hectare of seedling area of ​​spring crops.

Now in the oblast there is a forage preparation: 121 thousand tons of hay and 316 thousand tons of hay, ie 30% and 61% of the expected volume