Altai region completes spring crops sowing

Farmers of the Altai region have completed the sowing of spring crops on the area of 4.106 million hectares (which is 90% of the plan). Sowing of spring grains and leguminous plants had reached 2.717 million hectares (89%).

Klyuchevsky, Mamontovsky, Rebrikhinsky, Rubtsovsky, Tyumentsevsky and Shipunovsky districts have reported on the full completion of the sowing of cereal crops and leguminous plants.

The sowing of buckwheat takes 235 thousand hectares (50%), and the sowing of forage crops takes 225 thousand hectares (76%) while the sowing of millet continues.