Some 752,600 tonnes of grain has been procured in line with public procurement contracts, which is 92.7% of the plan, BelTA learned from the updates posted by the Agriculture and Food Ministry.
As of 28 August, grain and leguminous crops (excluding maize) were harvested on the area of 2.049 million hectares, or 93.4% of the plan. Grodno Oblast has taken the lead fulfilling 98.7% of the harvesting plan (318,500 hectares). Brest Oblast cropped 98.6% (335,200 hectares), Minsk Oblast harvested 98.1% (479,900 hectares), Gomel Oblast harvested 97.2% of the area (332,100 hectares), Mogilev Oblast gathered 84.4% (280,500 hectares), Vitebsk Oblast harvested 82.6% (303,000 hectares). Harvesting of buckwheat and millet is also in full swing, with 12.9% and 20.4% of the area under these crops already harvested.
All in all, 7.63 million tonnes of grain was threshed across the country with the average yield at 37.2 centners per hectare (in 2019, the yield as of the same date was 31.2 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 45,900 hectares (95.2% of the area under this crop).
Some 775,800 tonnes of hay (76.8% of the plan), 12.835 million tonnes of haylage (101.9%) and 1.288 tonnes of silage (6.72%) 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, 46% of the plan has been fulfilled.