MINSK, 3 September (BelTA) – Mass grain harvesting is nearing completion in Belarus, BelTA learned from the updates posted by the Agriculture and Food Ministry.
As of 3 September, grain and leguminous crops (excluding maize) were harvested on the area of 2.094 million hectares, or 95.5% of the plan. Brest Oblast cropped 99.1% (337,100 hectares), Minsk Oblast also harvested 99.1% (484,900 hectares), Grodno Oblast has harvested 98.9% of the plan (319,000 hectares), Gomel Oblast harvested 97.7% of the area (333,800 hectares), Mogilev Oblast gathered 90% (299,000 hectares), Vitebsk Oblast harvested 87.3% (320,300 hectares). Harvesting of buckwheat and millet is also in full swing, with 23.7% and 32% of the area under these crops already harvested.
All in all, 7.861 million tonnes of grain was threshed across the country with the average yield at 37.1 centners per hectare (in 2019, the yield as of the same date was 31.1 centners per hectare). Minsk Oblast harvested more than 1.9 million tonnes of grain, Grodno Oblast 1.5 million tonnes, Brest Oblast over 1.3 million tonnes, Vitebsk Oblast and Mogilev Oblast over 1 million tonnes, and Gomel Oblast over 900,000 tonnes.
Flax was harvested on the area of 46,900 hectares (97.2% of the area under this crop).
Some 794,100 tonnes of hay (78.6% of the plan), 12.961 million tonnes of haylage (102.9%) and 2.038 tonnes of silage (10.63%) 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, 48.4% of the plan has been fulfilled.
