More than 1.5 million tonnes of grain has already been harvested in Belarus, BelTA learned from the Agriculture and Food Ministry.
As of 27 July, grain and leguminous crops were harvested on the area of 405,900 hectares, or 18.5% of the plan. Gomel Oblast has taken the lead fulfilling 38.3% of the harvesting plan (130,300 hectares). Brest Oblast harvested 30% of the area (101,300 hectares), Grodno Oblast cropped 19.7% (62,900 hectares), Minsk Oblast harvested 15.1% (73,400 hectares), Mogilev Oblast gathered 7.93% (26,700 hectares), Vitebsk Oblast harvested 3.01 % (11,370 hectares).
All in all, 1,526,600 tonnes of grain was threshed across the country with the average yield at 37.6 centners per hectare (in 2019, the yield as of the same date was 33.2 centners per hectare). The target is to harvest 8 million tonnes of grain this year.
Flax was harvested on the area of 20,900 hectares (42.8% of the area under this crop). The second grass cutting was done on the area of 671,500 hectares (82% of the plan). Some 599,200 tonnes of hay (59.3% of the plan), 11.951 million tonnes of haylage (94.8%) and 492,900 tonnes of silage (2.57%) were stocked.
In total, there are plans to procure 9.3 million tonnes of fodder units of grass feed, most of them in Minsk Oblast and Brest Oblast. By this time, 40.3% of the plan has been fulfilled. There are plans to procure almost 19.2 million tonnes of silage, 12.6 million tonnes of haylage (including 1.1 million tonnes in polymer packaging), and 1.01 million tonnes of hay.