Agrarians of the Krasnoyarsk Territory have started sowing. Now oats, barley, annual and perennial grasses are sown in Uzhursky, Novoselovsky, Shushensky and Idrinsky districts.
According to the information of the regional ministry of agriculture, now 0,89 thousand hectares are sown with agricultural crops (0,07% of the plan). In the same period last year, 33,3 thousand hectares were sown (2,6% of the plan). Last year, the weather conditions allowed to start sowing earlier.
“This year the winter was snowy, the first months of spring did not spoil with warmth, so the villagers just go out into the fields. The mass start of the sowing campaign in the region is scheduled for the first ten days of May, ”said the deputy chairman of the regional government - Minister of Agriculture and Trade Leonid Shorokhov.
Let us add that agricultural producers began to prepare in advance for the sowing campaign: they bought mineral fertilizers and fuels and lubricants, renewed agricultural machinery. Now farmers are engaged in early spring harrowing in order to retain moisture in the soil.
This year, 1 million 485 thousand hectares have been allocated for agricultural crops, which is 0,6% more than a year earlier. The area of cereals and legumes will be 931,5 thousand hectares, oilseeds - more than 176 thousand hectares. The sown area of potatoes in the farms of the region will be 5,6 thousand hectares, vegetables - 1,6 thousand hectares. Forage crops will occupy 337,5 thousand hectares.