MINSK, 15 April (BelTA) – A third of the areas designated for spring crops have been sown in Belarus,
BelTA learned from the press service of the Agriculture and Food Ministry of Belarus.
As of 15 April, spring crops were planted on an area of 691,000 hectares, which accounted for 30% of the total sowing area of 2.295 million hectares.
The regional breakdown is the following: Brest Oblast planted 143,000 hectares (35% of planned areas); Vitebsk Oblast - 89,000 hectares (28%); Gomel Oblast - 106,000 hectares (26%); Grodno Oblast - 134,000 hectares (40%); Minsk Oblast - 124,000 hectares (25%); Mogilev Oblast - 95,000 hectares (29%).
Flax has been planted on 26,000 hectares (53% of the 50,000-hectare target).
Sugar beet sowing has been completed on more than 63,000 hectares, or 59% of the 106,000-hectare plan.
Spring soil tillage has been carried out on 1.241 million hectares or 90% of the planned 1.375 million hectares.
Mineral fertilizers (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium) for the 2026 spring campaign have been procured in the amount of 725,000 tonnes of active ingredient accounting for 87% of the plan.
Some 32 million tonnes of organic fertilizers have been applied to soils, which accounted for 65% of the total amount transported.