August 22 2007, 09:35

Harvesting of Potatoes and Other Vegetables Began in Farms of Leningrandskiy Oblast

Farms of Leningradskiy oblast started to harvest potatoes and vegetables. The yield of early potato has exceed the planned index by almost 20% and accounted for 211 centner per hectar (the plan index is 173 centner per hecrar). Up to now, the crop for 2% areas occupied under this culture has been cut, the gross harvest amounted to 2,646 ton.

Early vegetable varieties are gathered in 7% of available areas under crop, and gross harvest amounted to 5,690 ton.

It was noted in Oblast Committee for AIC that this season losses of no variety of culture have not been reported.