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Nearly 9.3m tonnes of grain, rapeseed cropped in Belarus

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MINSK, 8 October (BelTA) — About 9.3 million tonnes of grain, including rapeseed, has been threshed in Belarus, BelTA learned from the Agriculture and Food Ministry.

About 1.4 million tonnes of maize for grain were threshed in the country, with the average yield of 79 centners per hectare. A total of 176,600 hectares of sown areas was harvested, or 59.2% of the harvested area. Over 17.5 million tonnes of maize for silage and green fodder was cropped, which is 736,500 hectares of sown areas (or 77.3%).

Belarus has also harvested about 8.4 million tonnes of grass fodder (85.4% of the plan).

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