Three districts of the Stavropol region this year will gather first in the last 50 years the cotton crop. In the region intend to resume the cultivation of this crop on a commercial scale, said Tuesday the Governor Vladimir Vladimirov on his page in Instagram.

"Half-forgotten in the Stavropol region, "cotton" landscapes can be seen in Izobil, ipatovskiy and neftekumsky districts of the city. The first harvest after half a century will gather in the second half of September," he wrote.

The head of the region noted that "this year is experimental, and while the "new old" culture planted a few hundred acres," but "it is already clear that the Stavropol region are ready to become a cotton-growing region." "Today Russian is used exclusively imported cotton raw material. I hope that very soon the domestic light industry will be using our, Stavropol cotton," wrote Vladimirov.