MINSK, 4 October (BelTA) – Over 8 million tonnes of grain crops and rapeseed were threshed in Belarus, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry.
As of 4 October, some 8,007,900 tonnes of grain crops and rapeseed were cropped in Belarus. This included 6,967,100 tonnes of grain and leguminous crops as well as corn.
Harvesting of corn kernels is underway in all the oblasts of the country, with 74,800 hectares of land already cleared. Some 589,300 tonnes of corn kernels were threshed, with the yields averaging 78.8 centners per hectare.
Some 16,341,800 tonnes of corn for silage were cropped so far.
Brest Oblast, Grodno Oblast, Minsk Oblast and Gomel Oblast have completed buckwheat harvesting: 49,400 tonnes of buckwheat (yields are 14.5 centners per hectare) were threshed.
Belarusian agricultural workers harvested 565,100 tonnes of potatoes. The yields average 350.7 centners per hectare.
Sugar beet harvesting is also in progress in Belarus. Some 1,618,100 tonnes of sugar beet were removed, with the yields standing at 454.3 centners per hectare.
Winter grain crops were sown on 1,261,600 hectares of land (82.1% of the plan).
