In the Orenburg region for the harvest of the 2018 winter crops were sown on the area of 636.2 thousand hectares, which accounted for 79% of the forecast. In the Central areas of the region due to the thin snow cover can freeze solid a large part of crops of winter wheat. About it the correspondent REGNUM according to the regional Ministry of agriculture.

Adverse weather conditions develop and Perevolotsky, Belyaevsky district. Due to the snowy winters of the Orenburg region for the year may be lean.

However, as emphasized in the Ministry of agriculture, food and processing industry of the Orenburg region, in the case of death of winter crops, the region has transitional (insurance) Fund of seeds of spring crops for replanting during the spring field works.

Recall that from year to year in the Orenburg region winter crops make up a significant part of the crop — about a third of the total harvest. On the territory of Orenburg region for the harvest of 2016 was sown 533,9 thousand hectares of winter crops for the harvest-2017 — 701 hectares. the Region has set a goal to increase the acreage of winter crops to 1 million hectares.

We will add that in 2017 for the Orenburg region was a record harvest collected more than 4.2 million tons of grain.