BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

29/06/2009

Rains crushed 25.4 thsd ha of sowings in Belarus

In Belarus, rains and hails crushed 25.4 thsd ha of sowings, and damaged 183.6 thsd ha, declared the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Belarus.

According to the announcement, anomalous number of precipitations became the reason of such losses and damages of sowings. The number of precipitations totaled 1.5 or 2 monthly norms, added representatives of the Ministry.

According to the information from the Ministry, the general number of lost sowings totaled 25.4 thsd ha, including 5.6 thsd ha of winter grain sowings, 10.5 thsd ha of spring grain sowings, 5.3 thsd ha of maize sowings, 1.5 thsd ha of sugar-beet sowings. Gomel oblast (6.6 thsd ha) and Minsk oblast (6.4 thsd ha) received the worst damages.

The general number of damaged sowings in Belarus totaled 183.6 thsd ha, including 49.8 thsd ha of winter grain sowings, 93.8 thsd ha of spring grain sowings, 27.8 thsd ha of maize sowings, 4.5 thsd ha of sugar-beet sowings. Minsk oblast and Grodno oblast received the worst damages of sowings.

Source:

http://www.agrimarket.info/showart.php?id=78019

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