In the Lipetsk region collected more than 119 thousand tons of greenhouse vegetables

Agrarians of the Lipetsk region collected 119 thousand tons of greenhouse vegetables - 7 thousand tons more than in the same period last year. Such data were given in the regional Ministry of Agriculture.

The main part of the crop was tomatoes – 66.8 thousand tons. Cucumbers collected 50.5 thousand tons, another 1.7 thousand tons accounted for other vegetable crops.

Greenhouse vegetable farming allows you to harvest regardless of the season and provide the region with fresh products. Compared to last year, the collection volumes for this date increased.

We will remind, in the region continues to harvest sugar beets. Earlier, farmers of the Lipetsk region collected 4.6 million tons of this crop. More than a million tons of the total account for the Dobrin district.