In the Tomsk region began to apply winter liming of the soil

For the first time in the region, the project on winter liming of the soil was carried out by the agricultural enterprise “Sibirskoye Zerno” in the Tomsk region. According to Sergey Ivanov, director of Siberian Grain LLC, liming was carried out on 100 hectares with a limestone flour application rate of 9 t/ha. “This technology is not cheap: we spent 3 million rubles to cultivate an experimental plot of 100 hectares. Liming is subsidized in the amount of 50% of the costs. The return of funds from the federal budget is possible only in the next 2024. We need to cultivate 4.5 thousand hectares of sown areas: all of them are at best slightly acidic and acidic. Of course, without state support, we will not be able to handle the processing of all areas in full, ”Sergey Ivanov noted. Liming is traditionally carried out on fallows in summer or spring. But since Siberian Grain uses no-till technology, which, among other things, involves the simultaneous use of all sown areas (no…