MINSK, 19 October (BelTA) – Maize has been harvested on the area of 888,300 hectares, or 72.9% of the plan, BelTA learned from the updates posted by the Agriculture and Food Ministry.
As of 19 October, Belarus harvested 832,800 hectares of maize for silage and fodder (82.8% of the plan) and gathered 19.83 million tonnes of grass feed with the yield at 238.1 centners per hectare. Harvesting of maize for grain is underway and is 26% complete: 55,500 hectares were harvested, with 379,300 tonnes threshed.
All in all, 8.439 million tonnes of grain was threshed across the country with the average yield at 37.5 centners per hectare (in 2019, the yield as of the same date was 33.5 centners per hectare). Minsk Oblast harvested 2.1 million tonnes of grain, Grodno Oblast more than 1.6 million tonnes, Brest Oblast over 1.4 million tonnes, Mogilev Oblast over 1.1 million tonnes, Vitebsk Oblast and Gomel Oblast more than 1 million tonnes.
Some 2.072 million tonnes of sugar beets were harvested on the area of 45,500 hectares (or 55.2% of land under this crop). The yield is 455.5 centners per hectare with the sugar content at 16.09%. Potatoes were harvested on the area of 23,700 hectares or 94.5% of the plan. Some 674,000 tonnes of potatoes were cropped (the yield – 284.2 centners per hectare). As far as other vegetables are concerned, 98,900 tonnes of vegetables were harvested on the area of 4,500 hectares (74.4% of the plan). The yield was 221.7 centners per hectare.
Some 13.449 million tonnes of haylage (106.7%) and 16.986 million tonnes of silage (88.6%) were stocked. Plans are in place to procure 9.3 million tonnes of fodder units of grass feed, most of them in Minsk Oblast and Brest Oblast. By this time, 94.8% of the plan has been fulfilled.
