This year, local farmers planted 20 percent more crops on 2024, according to the official website of the Trans-Baikal Territory.

Most crops have been planted in the Priargunsky District, covering an area of 4,000 hectares. Farmers in the Ulyotovsky District have reactivated 3,200 hectares of unused land plots. Virgin-lands with an area of 2,600 hectares have been plowed up in the Sretensky District. Farmland was also developed in the Nerchinsky, Chernyshevsky and Shilkinsky districts.  

Seven farms in six municipal entities have received 36.2 million rubles’ worth of budgetary funding as compensation for their fieldwork.