Russia: Harvest of early open-ground vegetables began in Crimea

Borscht set vegetables, cucumbers, tomatoes, zucchini, sweet peppers and other crops were removed from an area of more than 200 hectares In Crimea, agricultural producers began to harvest early vegetables in the open field, said Minister of Agriculture of the Republic Andrey Savchuk. “The first crop of Crimean vegetables of the “borscht set” this year has already been harvested - almost 1 thousand tons. These are cabbage, beets, carrots and onions. Also, other types of vegetable crops are now being harvested from the fields: cucumbers, tomatoes, zucchini, sweet peppers, vegetable peas, eggplant and garlic. The work was carried out on an area of more than 200 hectares, 2.3 thousand tons of early vegetables and about 240 tons of potatoes were harvested,” said Savchuk. This year, agricultural organizations, peasant (farm) enterprises and individual entrepreneurs of the region plan to harvest vegetables from an area of about 4.5 thousand hectares and potatoes from an area of 1.2 ...