Record harvest of rice was harvested in Dagestan, Russia

As the "RG" correspondent was told in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the republic, last year's record was broken, when farmers harvested 111 thousand tons of raw rice. During the harvest, the weather presented a surprise - it rained incessantly for a long time, so agricultural enterprises could not use the equipment on waterlogged fields. The owners of caterpillar rice harvesters from neighboring regions helped out. According to the First Deputy Minister of Agriculture RD Sharip Sharipov, land reclamation has been actively developing in the republic in recent years - since 2017, 37,700 hectares of rice engineering systems have been built and reconstructed in Dagestan. - Today we are carrying out many works for the first time in 30 years - we are reconstructing main canals, on-farm networks. Rice growers can reclaim old land and put new ones into circulation. Farmers are reimbursed up to 30 percent of the costs of elite seed growing and land reclamation. In addition, up to ...