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Belarus harvests over 8.1m tonnes of grain and rapeseed

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MINSK, 6 October (BelTA) – Over 8.1 million tonnes of grain crops and rapeseed were threshed in Belarus, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry.

As of 6 October, some 8,113,600 tonnes of grain crops and rapeseed were cropped in Belarus. This included 7,072,800 tonnes of grain and leguminous crops as well as corn.

Harvesting of corn kernels is underway in all the oblasts of the country, with 87,100 hectares of land already cleared. Some 693,200 tonnes of corn kernels were threshed, with the yields averaging 79.6 centners per hectare.

Some 17,190,000 tonnes of corn for silage were cropped so far.

Brest Oblast, Grodno Oblast, Minsk Oblast and Gomel Oblast have completed buckwheat harvesting: 50,200 tonnes of buckwheat (yields are 14.5 centners per hectare) were threshed.

Belarusian agricultural workers harvested 605,000 tonnes of potatoes. The yields average 353.4 centners per hectare.

Sugar beet harvesting is also in progress in Belarus. Some 1,742,000 tonnes of sugar beet were removed, with the yields standing at 454.3 centners per hectare.

Winter grain crops were sown on 1,321,100 hectares of land (85.9% of the plan).

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