Rice farmland area increases in Dagestan

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Makhachkala, November 14, 2017. The agrarians of the republic plan to increase the rice farmland area until 2019. According to the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Dagestan, 1 thousand hectares of rice farmland will be put into operation from 2017 to 2019 in Dagestan.

This year, the area of  rice farmlands has increased by more than 1200 hectares compared with the same period of the last year. The crop has been yielded from the territory of 17 thousand 207 hectares, the average yield made 44 centners per hectare. In total it was harvested 75.6 thousand tons of rice, which is 13.5 thousand tons more than last year.

The biggest harvest of rice was yielded Kizlyarsky district of Dagestan. The rice grown by the local farmers is highly valued for its taste. In Dagestan, the work to increase the rice yields is implemented within the framework of the "Effective AIC" project. In four years, the production of crop in the region increased in 2.6 times.

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