Belarus harvests over 3.5m tonnes of grain

Belarus has threshed more than 3,540,800 tonnes of grain, with the average yield of 37.7 centners per hectare, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry.

As of 9 August, harvesting was completed on 73.9% of the area (255,600 hectares) in Brest Oblast, 26% (94,200 hectares) in Vitebsk Oblast, 51.9% (179,900 hectares) in Gomel Oblast, 36.7% (112,100 hectares) in Grodno Oblast, 41.4% (185,700 hectares) in Minsk Oblast, and 33.9% (112,500 hectares) in Mogilev Oblast.

Malt barley was harvested from 26,600 hectares of land (48.8% of the plan), with 113,200 tonnes threshed and the average yield at 42.5 centners per hectare. Winter rapeseed was gathered in from 270,000 hectares of land or 87.6% of the targeted area, with 709,600 tonnes threshed and the average yield at 26.3 centners per hectare.

Flax was cleared from the area of 32,300 hectares (72.9%).

As part of the second cutting agricultural workers cut down grass on 798,600 hectares or 78.2% of the targeted area. Some 684,900 tonnes of hay (71.7% of the target), 11.590 million tonnes of haylage (86.3%), and 317,100 tonnes of silage (1.66%) were produced.