Over 4.2m tonnes of grain and rapeseed threshed in Belarus

Over 4.2 million tonnes of grain, including rapeseed, has been threshed in Belarus, BelTA learned from the Agriculture and Food Ministry.
As of 26 July, 4.279 million tonnes of grain (including rapeseed) was harvested, which includes 3.28 million tonnes of cereals and leguminous crops and 999,000 tonnes of winter rapeseed.
Gomel Oblast and Brest Oblast completed harvesting winter rapeseed.  The regional breakdown is the following: Minsk Oblast harvested 1.080 million tonnes of grain (including rapeseed), Brest Oblast -1.061 million tonnes, Grodno Oblast - 981,000 tonnes, Gomel Oblast - 470,000 tonnes, Mogilev Oblast  - 421,000 tonnes, Vitebsk Oblast - 265,700 tonnes. 

Farmers are stepping up efforts to apply organic fertilizers. All in all, 11.8 million tonnes of fertilizers were placed on the fields in the run-up to sowing winter crops, 2.08 million tonnes of fertilizers have already been applied.