September 24 2008, 09:03

Russia: potato harvesting began in Kamchatka

Agrarian enterprises of Kamchatka began harvesting potatoes and vegetables , the Ministry of agriculture and Trade of Kamchatskiy Krai reportedю It was informed by , IA REGNUM informed.

As of September 23, 300 tonnes of potatoes and 25 tonnes of carrot were harvested. At the same time, the areas planted with potatoes totaled more than 900 ha, vegetables – 200 ha. Storage of fodder has been finished only by 65 %. Agrarian enterprises can not finish harvesting because of the bad weather conditions, rain in particular