Field work began in 14 districts of the region. More than 1000 hectares of grain crops, 57 hectares of vegetables and 20 hectares of potatoes, 310 hectares of annual and perennial grasses have already been sown.
In general, in the region, spring sowing amounted to 1387 hectares, which is 4% of the plan. This was reported in the press center of the regional government with reference to the Ministry of Agriculture of the Novgorod region.
More than 300 hectares of grain have been sown in the fields of NovSvin LLC. In the Soletsky district, the collective farm "Russia" for barley occupied more than 200 hectares of land. And in the Shimsky district, LLC "Stashevskoye" began sowing naked oats - work was carried out on an area of more than 300 hectares.
Farmers of Novgorodsky, Soletsky, Shimsky, Starorussky and Lyubytinsky districts have begun planting vegetables. Mostly carrots, but they also started planting early varieties of potatoes.
Agrarians are engaged in the preparation of arable land - work was carried out on an area of 3,2 thousand hectares. In a number of regions of the economy, they began feeding winter crops, applying organic fertilizers to the fields for spring sowing.
Source: https://53news.ru/