In the Brest region for five years put into operation more than 110 thousand hectares of reclaimed land

In the past five years, Brest region fully ensured the annual implementation of repair and maintenance plans and the achievement of targets for the commissioning of areas. The emphasis on this today, September 28, during the meeting of the Brest Regional Executive Committee, which considered the issue of the effectiveness of the use of reclaimed lands in the region, made the Director of the state association Brestmeliovodkhoz Vasily Strapko, the correspondent of sb.by.

- 110.7 thousand hectares of renovated land were put into operation. More than a third of them – almost 40 thousand hectares – fell on four districts of the Pripyat Polesie program (Pinsky, Stolinsky, Luninetsky and Gantsevichi). The total amount of budget investments in land reclamation of Brest region over the past five years amounted to 601.3 million rubles. The main financial emphasis was placed on the reconstruction of the systems – 333.7 million rubles or 56 percent of the allocated funds. 207.6 million rubles (34 percent) were allocated for the current operation of reclamation systems, 60 million rubles (10 percent) for cultural and technical reclamation.

Also during this period, there was a purposeful strengthening of the material and technical base of reclamation enterprises of the region. In the period from 2021 to September 2026, they purchased 659 units of various reclamation equipment and equipment. Almost half of them - 315 units - were updated at the expense of the enterprises' own funds. Thanks to the ongoing complex of repair works, the technical readiness of the park is stably maintained at a level not lower than 97 percent.

As Vasily Strapko emphasized, the work on the restoration of the reclamation complex of the Brest region will continue:

- Together with the district executive committees, a new five-year plan was developed, the main goal of which is to enter into regulatory maintenance of reclamation systems by the end of 2030. In the current five-year plan, it is necessary to restore 98.5 thousand hectares of previously reclaimed lands, of which 24.2 thousand hectares in 2026. Cultural improvement is planned on the area of 8.5 thousand hectares. The target indicator for the reconstruction of reclamation systems is set at 15.7 thousand hectares. According to the results of 9 months of this year, 17.8 thousand hectares will be put into operation, which will be 74 percent of the task. There are no lags from the schedules: we will complete work at the introductory objects of cultures of equipment in October, and at the reconstruction projects in November.