Belarusian agricultural workers have harvested 7.5 million tonnes of grain, BelTA learned from the updates posted by the Agriculture and Food Ministry.

As of 24 August, grain and leguminous crops (excluding maize) were harvested on the area of 2.018 million hectares, or 92% of the plan. Brest Oblast has taken the lead fulfilling 98.4% of the harvesting plan (334,600 hectares). Grodno Oblast cropped 98.3% (317,100 hectares), Gomel Oblast harvested 97% of the area (331,400 hectares), Minsk Oblast harvested 96.9% (474,100 hectares), Mogilev Oblast gathered 82.4% (273,900 hectares), Vitebsk Oblast harvested 78.2% (286,900 hectares). Harvesting of buckwheat and millet is also in full swing, with 8.34% and 13,4% of the area under these crops already harvested.

All in all, 7.524 million tonnes of grain was threshed across the country with the average yield at 37.3 centners per hectare (in 2019, the yield as of the same date was 31.3 centners per hectare). Minsk Oblast harvested more than 1.9 million tonnes of grain, Grodno Oblast 1.5 million tonnes, Brest Oblast over 1.3 million tonnes, Mogilev Oblast, Vitebsk Oblast and Gomel Oblast over 900,000 tonnes.

Flax was harvested on the area of 45,000 hectares (92.6% of the area under this crop).

Some 768,000 tonnes of hay (76% of the plan), 12.751 million tonnes of haylage (101.2%) and 947,000 tonnes of silage (4.94%) 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, 44.8% of the plan has been fulfilled.