"Spring wheat threshed with 419 thousand hectares in the region begins cleaning buckwheat. According to the latest data, it was removed from six percent of the area. This was 42 thousand tons of grain. More than 50% of grain and leguminous crops was removed in the Zonal, Kytmanovskogo, Kosikhinskiy, SS, Smolensk, Tretyakov, Trinity and other areas", – stated in the message.

Simultaneously with the cleaning of the village continue to shape the stock of forages on the forthcoming wintering of cattle, are sowing of winter crops and fall tillage.

According to the Ministry of agriculture of the region, farmers of the Altai region have to clean spring wheat with more than 2 million hectares, which corresponds to level of last year.

All of the harvesting campaign in the region involved more than 9000 combine harvesters. In good weather, Altai farmers for the day can remove at 115-120 thousand hectares.

Note that in the first half for modernization of agriculture is allocated to 3.85 billion rubles to one billion rubles more to the level of funding last year. Virtually all equipment acquired through participation in Federal and regional support programmes.

Earlier, the Governor of the region Alexander Karlin reported that in the Altai region is the largest in Russia the area of arable land. The gross regional product agricultural production is the fifth, and the average for Russia this share does not exceed 6-6,5%. More than one million inhabitants of the Altai region live in rural areas.

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