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Agricultural companies of Vitebsk oblast are the first to complete winter crops sowing campaign. This year winter crops occupy 188,000 hectares which is 1.5% more than the target, BelTA learnt in the plant cultivation department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs of Belarus. By September 26 Mogilev oblast is expected to finish the sowing campaign. On the whole, Belarus is to complete winter crops sowing by September 30. Winter crops occupy a total of 1,243,000 hectares or 89.5%...

The Miory region of Vitebsk oblast will host the oblast festival of national cultures on September 29, BelTA learnt in the Miory regional executive committee. The festival will gather together over 300 representatives of various nationalities (Russians, Ukrainians, Polish, Jews, Gypsies, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Tadjiks, Letts and Uzbeks) from 15 regions of Vitebsk oblast as well as from Orhsha, Polotsk and Vitebsk. They will make performances, organize exhibitions of national arts and...

Agricultural companies of Vitebsk oblast are the first to complete winter crops sowing campaign. This year winter crops occupy 188,000 hectares which is 1.5% more than the target, BelTA learnt in the plant cultivation department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs of Belarus. By September 26 Mogilev oblast is expected to finish the sowing campaign. On the whole, Belarus is to complete winter crops sowing by September 30. Winter crops occupy a total of 1,243,000 hectares or 89.5%...

Vitebsk Oblast Philharmonic is opening a kind of a branch — a philharmonic hall in agro-town Novyye Goryany in the Polotsk region. It will be the 14th philharmonic hall Vitebsk Oblast Philharmonic is opening as part of the State Village Revival and Development Programme, Deputy Director of Vitebsk Oblast Philharmonic Anna Olekhnovich told BelTA. Community centres in agro-towns have a well-developed infrastructure. Today it is technically easy to arrange concerts of the philharmonic in the...

Belarus is finishing sowing winter crops. The sowing area exceeded 1 million hectares or 73.5% of the plan. Agricultural companies of Vitebsk oblast were the first to complete the harvesting campaign. They have to sow only 8% of the area, BelTA was told in the head plant growing department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs of Belarus. Mogilev oblast has to sow 11% of the area. Winter crops were sown there in the best agronomical terms. Last year the oblast managed to sow only a...

The Vitebsk Veterinary Academy has set up a regional practical training center of agrarians, BelTA learnt in the Academy. The core goals of the center is to introduce innovation forms and methods of practical and production training and energy-saving technologies in meat and dairy productions, to introduce advanced technologies in grain cultivation and fodder storing, to develop new methods of diagnostics, treatment and prevention of animal diseases. Several local companies have been...