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Grain harvest in Belarus enters final straight

MINSK, 22 August (BelTA) – Harvest works in Belarus are entering their home stretch. A total of 2.13 million hectares (94% of the sown area) under grains and legumes were harvested as of 22 August, BelTA learnt from the Agriculture and Food Ministry.

The majority of the regions would have completed the harvest works if it were not for rainy weather in the weekend. So far Brest Oblast has harvested 98.5% of the area under grains. The figures for the other oblasts stood as the following: Grodno Oblast – 96.9%, Mogilev Oblast – 96%, Minsk Oblast – 94%, Gomel Oblast – 93% and Vitebsk Oblast – 87.7%.

The gross grain harvest across the country reached 7.393.5 million tonnes, with Minsk Oblast accounting for 1.900.6 million tonnes alone. Agricultural companies in Grodno Oblast cropped 1.375.6 million tonnes of grain. Farms harvested 1.179.7 million tonnes of grain in Vitebsk Oblast and 1.072.2 million tonnes in Mogilev Oblast. Brest Oblast showed a harvest of 1.028.7 million tonnes of grain. Gomel Oblast cropped 836,700 tonnes. All the oblasts, except Brest Oblast, surpassed their last year’s grain production.

Agricultural companies in Grodno Oblast led in this year’s crop yield (42.9 centners per hectare). Minsk Oblast showed the crop capacity of 36.6 centners per hectare. The cropping power was 36.5 centners per hectare in Mogilev Oblast and 32.4 centners per hectare in Brest Oblast. The lowest yield due to hot weather was registered in Gomel Oblast (28.6 centners per hectare). The average yield in the country totaled 34.7 centners per hectare, up 5 centners per hectare on 2010.

Belarusian farmers have started to thresh buckwheat and millet. They have already cropped 2,400 hectares of buckwheat. Farmers harvested 4,100 tonnes of buckwheat with the average yield of 17.2 centners per hectare. Millet has been harvested on 2,500 hectares, or 23.2% of the area. The average yield is 23.2 centners per hectare.

The public grain procurement contract is almost 89.6% complete. Moreover, farmers provided 111,000 tonnes of brewer’s barley, or 52.4%, and 208,700 tonnes of colza oilseeds, or 44% of the target. Farmers have cropped 385,900 tonnes of colza oilseeds.

The harvest of corn for silage amounted to 546,600 tonnes, with the average yield of 285.6 centners per hectare.

Some 1.6 million hectares under straw have been cropped (74.6% of the total).

Flax harvesting is close to its end.

Winter colza has already been sown on the area of 336,800 hectares (79.8% of the plan).

External source of this news: http://news.belta.by/en/news/econom?id%3D651366
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