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07 August 2020, 14:20

Over 4.8m tonnes of grain harvested in Belarus

MINSK, 7 August (BelTA) – Nearly 4.8 million tonnes of grain has already been harvested in Belarus, BelTA learned from the Agriculture and Food Ministry.

As of 7 August, grain and leguminous crops were harvested on the area of 1.2 million hectares, or 56.8% of the plan. Brest Oblast has taken the lead fulfilling 77.3% of the harvesting plan (260,800 hectares). Gomel Oblast harvested 72.6% of the area (247,000 hectares), Grodno Oblast cropped 63.3% (201,600 hectares), Minsk Oblast harvested 57.3% (278,000 hectares), Mogilev Oblast gathered 41.5% (139,500 hectares), Vitebsk Oblast harvested 31.6% (119,400 hectares).

All in all, 4,762,200 tonnes of grain was threshed across the country with the average yield at 38.2 centners per hectare (in 2019, the yield as of the same date was 32.2 centners per hectare). The target is to harvest 8 million tonnes of grain this year.

Flax was harvested on the area of 34,000 hectares (70% of the area under this crop). The second grass cutting was done on the area of 722,700 hectares (88.3% of the plan). Some 687,400 tonnes of hay (68.1% of the plan), 12.377 million tonnes of haylage (98.2%) and 516,900 tonnes of silage (2.7%) 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, 42.1% of the plan has been fulfilled. There are plans to procure almost 19.2 million tonnes of silage, 12.6 million tonnes of haylage (including 1.1 million tonnes in polymer packaging), and 1.01 million tonnes of hay.

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