Over 7.9m tonnes of grain and rapeseed threshed in Belarus

Over 7.9 million tonnes of grain crops and rapeseed were threshed in Belarus, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry.

As of 2 October, some 7,908,900 tonnes of grain crops and rapeseed were cropped in Belarus. This included 6,868,300 tonnes of grain and leguminous crops as well as corn.

Harvesting of corn kernels is underway in all the oblasts of the country, with 63,000 hectares of land already cleared. Some 491,400 tonnes of corn kernels were threshed, with the yields averaging 78 centners per hectare.

Some 15,484,200 tonnes of corn for silage were cropped so far.

Brest Oblast, Grodno Oblast, Minsk Oblast and Gomel Oblast have completed buckwheat harvesting: 48,700 tonnes of buckwheat (yields are 14.5 centners per hectare) were threshed.

The flax straw harvest amounted to 118,800 tonnes.

Belarusian agricultural workers harvested 501,100 tonnes of potatoes. The yields average 351.4 centners per hectare.

Sugar beet harvesting is also in progress in Belarus. Some 1,439,300 tonnes of sugar beet were removed, with the yields standing at 453.3 centners per hectare.

Winter grain crops were sown on 1,153,900 hectares of land (75.1% of the plan), more than last year.