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Over 4m tonnes of grain and rapeseed threshed in Belarus

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MINSK, 25 July (BelTA) –  Over 4 million tonnes of grain, including rapeseed, has been threshed in Belarus, BelTA learned from the Agriculture and Food Ministry.

As of 25 July, 4.063 million tonnes of grain (including rapeseed) was harvested, which includes 3.079 million tonnes of cereals and leguminous crops and 984,000 tonnes of winter rapeseed.

Gomel Oblast and Brest Oblast completed harvesting winter rapeseed.  The regional breakdown is the following: Brest Oblast harvested 1.046 million tonnes of grain (including rapeseed), Minsk Oblast 1.006 million tonnes, Grodno Oblast 943,400 tonnes, Gomel Oblast 444,500 tonnes, Mogilev Oblast 387,000 tonnes, Vitebsk Oblast 235,6 00tonnes.

As to other crops, 70.7% of spring barley was harvested, 52.7% of winter rye, 36.6% of wheat, 28.9% of triticale, 24% of legumes, and 23.7% of oats. All oblasts have completed harvesting winter barley.

Meanwhile, flax was pulled from 26,800 hectares, which is 60% of the area under this crop.

A total of 3.345 million tonnes of grass feed was harvested (34.1% of the plan).

Farmers are stepping up efforts to apply organic fertilizers. All in all, 11.8 million tonnes of fertilizers (88.9% of the target) were placed on the fields in the run-up to sowing winter crops, 2.04 million tonnes (15.4%) of fertilizers have already been applied.

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