In 2020, the entire sown area of agricultural crops in the Artyomovsk urban district is planned at least last year - 2273 hectares
The farmers completed the planting of potatoes and soybeans in Artem.
Artyomovsk agrarians have completed planting potatoes and soybeans. Agricultural enterprises planted potatoes on an area of 355 hectares. OOO SKhP Artyomovskiy this year increased the area under potatoes by 9%. Also, more than 700 hectares of potatoes are expected to be planted in personal subsidiary farms of the Artyomovsk urban district. In 2020, the entire sown area of agricultural crops in the Artyomovsk urban district is planned at least last year - 2273 hectares. For the 2020 harvest, 336 tons of mineral fertilizers were purchased. More than 3 thousand tons of organic matter were taken to the fields, the press service of the administration of the Artyomovsk city district told IA PrimaMedia.
Due to snowfalls, there was a lot of waterlogging in the fields, which is why the sowing works of the enterprise began later, but they are trying to meet the optimal agrotechnical terms. As of today, agricultural enterprises sowed early cereals before May 1 on the entire planned area of 130 hectares, fodder crops were sown on 220 hectares. Soybeans were sown on an area of 50 hectares.
Now it’s the turn of planting vegetables, but work has not yet begun because of weather conditions. In total, more than 370 ha are planned to be planted in the Artyomovsk urban district.
Recall that spring greenhouses were laid and seedlings were planted for planting about 280 thousand in open ground, as well as personal subsidiary plots.
Agricultural enterprises, including agricultural producers, agricultural processors, and veterinary clinics, were included in the list of workers during the pandemic. Recommendations to ensure uninterrupted operation under conditions of the threat of the spread of coronavirus infection were brought to all enterprises. All economic entities of the agro-industrial complex of the region are working in accordance with the task of preventing a decrease in agricultural production. To protect labor resources at enterprises, increased preventive measures are followed, personal protective equipment is applied, employees are thermometered, flexible work is carried out taking into account the peculiarities of the organization of production processes. Current veterinary and sanitary norms and rules are observed.
Recall that the Ministry of Agriculture has developed government support measures to stimulate the crop sector in terms of supporting potato producers, vegetable crops of open ground (including seedlings), as well as agricultural producers purchasing elite seeds of agricultural crops and seeds of the first reproduction. The main conditions for subsidizing the crop industry will be insurance of sown areas and the use for sowing seeds of varieties and hybrids of which are included in the State Register of Selection Achievements of the Russian Federation approved for use in a specific access region.