The Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Dagestan has announced the start of the rice harvesting season. This year, farmers in Dagestan plan to cultivate rice on 25,000 hectares. Initial efforts have yielded about 3,000 hectares of threshed rice, with an average yield of 45 quintals per hectare. Kizlyar, Babayurt, and Tarumovsky districts make significant progress in their rice harvesting efforts.