OREANDA-NEWS. August 8, 2011. All the regions of Belarus have started harvesting cereals, Belarusian Agriculture and Food Minister Mikhail Rusyi told the President of Belarus during Alexander Lukashenko’s working visit to Vitebsk Region on July 20, said the press service of the Belarusian head of state.

In his words, machines have been prepared and deployed in the fields already, grain-drying facilities have been prepared.

In turn, Alexander Lukashenko gave an instruction to start the mass harvesting of cereals within 3 days since the weather favored it, said the source.