MINSK, 3 November (BelTA) – Belarusian farmers are finishing harvesting maize for silage and fodder, BelTA learned from the updates posted by the Agriculture and Food Ministry.
As of 3 November maize was harvested on the area of 1.081 million hectares, or 88.7% of the plan. Belarus harvested 952,600 hectares of maize for silage and fodder (94.7% of the plan) and gathered 22.181 million tonnes of grass feed with the yield at 232.9 centners per hectare. Harvesting of maize for grain continues and is 60.5% complete: 129,000 hectares were harvested, with 893,600 tonnes threshed.
As of 3 November, sugar beets were removed from 66,500 hectares, or 80.8 of the total areas planted to this crop. Some 3.167 million tonnes of sugar beets were harvested with an average yield of 476 centners per hectare. The sugar content stands at 16.25%. As far as other vegetable crops are concerned, Belarusian farmers cleared 5,310 hectares (88.7% of the plan), collected 135,400 tonnes of vegetables, with the yield of 254.8 centners per hectare
A total of 8.953 million tonnes of grain was harvested in the country, with the average yield of 38.5 centners per hectare (34.5 centners per hectare as of the same date in 2019). Minsk Oblast harvested 2.2 million tonnes of grain, Grodno Oblast cropped 1.7 million tonnes, Brest Oblast 1.5 million tonnes, Mogilev Oblast 1.2 million tonnes, Vitebsk Oblast over 1.1 million tonnes and Gomel Oblast more than 1 million tonnes.
Some 13.749 million tonnes of haylage (109.1%) and 19.066 million tonnes of silage (99.5%) were stocked. Some 9.5 million tonnes of fodder units of grass feed were put in stock as of 3 November, up by 1.9% of the target.
Written by belta.by
