Dubasari district reports record high cereal crop and legume output
At nearly 33,600 tonnes of grain, this year's harvest in Dubasari district is expected to break a twenty-year record, Info-Prim Neo's correspondent in Transnistria reports.
“The forecasts of the specialists about an abundant harvest of cereal crops and legumes are proving out”, said Veaceslav Ljubinski, head of the district's agriculture department.
In contrast, only 1,739 tonnes of autumn wheat were harvested last year.
Following agricultural reforms in Dubasari, all the farmland in the district – roughly 23,000 hectares – was entirely planted for the first time in two decades. Earlier, half of it had been left idle.
The representative of the new local administration, Igor Mazur, appointed to the post by Igor Smirnov in place of the former mayor, Vladislav Finaghin, inspected all the collective farms in the district, finding the activity of most of them to be be ineffective. Many managers of these farms have been stealing collective goods in large quantities. Investigations have been initiated to estimate the damages and find the responsible persons.
Half of the farmland in Dubasari are let out for a period of up to 99 years by three major landowners – Lender-Agroprim SRL, Heres-Agro SRL, and the Tiraspol-based Bakery.