MINSK, 7 September (BelTA) – Some 3.5% of the areas with grain and leguminous crops (except for maize) is left to harvest in Belarus, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry.
As of 7 September, grain and leguminous crops were harvested on the area of 2.115 million hectares, or 96.5% of the plan. Brest Oblast fulfilled 99.5% of the harvesting plan (338,200 hectares). Grodno Oblast cropped 99.4% (320,600 hectares), Minsk Oblast harvested 99.4% (486,500 hectares), Gomel Oblast harvested 98.1% of the area (334,900 hectares), Mogilev Oblast gathered 92% (305,900 hectares), Vitebsk Oblast harvested 89.9% (329,700 hectares). Harvesting of buckwheat and millet is also in full swing, with 36.8% and 40.5% of the area under these crops already harvested.
All in all, 7.931 million tonnes of grain was threshed across the country with the average yield at 37 centners per hectare (in 2019, the yield as of the same date was 31.1 centners per hectare). Minsk Oblast harvested almost 2 million tonnes of grain. Grodno Oblast cropped more than 1.5 million tonnes, Brest Oblast – over 1.3 million tonnes. The 1 million-tonne target was hit by Mogilev Oblast and Vitebsk Oblast. Gomel Oblast harvested more than 900,000 tonnes.
Flax was harvested on the area of 47,400 hectares (98.3% of the area under this crop).
Some 803,700 tonnes of hay (79.6% of the plan), 13.041 million tonnes of haylage (103.5%) and 2.926 tonnes of silage (15.3%) were stocked. In total, there are plans to procure 9.3 million tonnes of fodder units of grass feed, most of them in Minsk Oblast and Brest Oblast. By this time, 51.1% of the plan has been fulfilled.
