Belarus has harvested 437,300 hectares, or 20.6% of the total cropping area, BelTA learnt from the main plant growing department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs.
The Gomel oblast has harvested 45% of the cropping area. It is followed by the Brest oblast (30%), Grodno oblast (19%), Minsk (15%), Mogilev (14%), the Vitebsk oblast (6%).
Some 75,200 hectares, or 3.2% of the total area, were harvested on July 30. It started raining in some regions yesterday, which hampered the harvest campaign.
The gross harvest made up 1,677.400 tonnes. On July 30 the yield amounted to 280,000 tonnes. The Gomel oblast has already harvested 466,200 tonnes, Brest 386,500 tonnes, Minsk 307,400 tonnes, Grodno 292,400 tonnes, Mogilev 155,600 tonnes and Vitebsk oblast 69,000 tonnes.
The yield countrywide averages 35.4 centners per hectare, or 5 centners more than last year. The highest yield is in the Grodno oblast: 44.8 centners per hectare (8.6 centers more). The yield in the Brest oblast is 37 centners per hectare; in Mogilev almost 35 centners per hectare and 34 centners per hectare in the Minsk oblast.
Written by belta.by
