BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

11/08/2006

Gross grain yield in Belarus is reaching 3 mln tonnes

According to Vladimir Kuratnik, Minister of Agriculture of Belarus, by the 10th of August the enterprises of the Republic milled 2.732 mln. tonnes, up 187.000 tonnes as compared to the same date of the previous year.

Grains and legumes are harvested from 945.000 ha, or 42.3% of total harvesting area. In Brest oblast grains are harvested in the volume of 65.5%, in Gomel oblast - 51.4%, in Grodnen - 48.2%. In Minsk oblast farmers milled 39.4% of crop, in Mogilevsk - 28.6%. The enterprises of Vitebsk oblast harvested 22.3% of area and for the previous day they reached the highest level of mowing - 3.7%.

According to the specialists, all regions exceeded levels of the last year on milling the grain. In average the yield in the Republic is 29.3 c/ha. The highest one is in Grodnen oblast 36.7 c/ha. Yield of enterprises in Minsk, Mogilevsk and Vitebsk oblasts is higher comparing to the last year figure - 31.2 c/ha, 30.9 c/ha and 28.6 c/ha accordingly.

Vladimir Kuratnik noticed that the terms of ending of harvesting campaign are unchanged - August 25 for southern and central regions and September 1 for northern regions. Soon the period of rains should finish and farmers are to increase the speed of mowing - by 5-7% per day.

For today the stat has bought 249.200 tonnes of grains, almost 25% above the plan. 20.800 tonnes of grains are prepared for the state order for brewer's barley.

Source:

http://www.agrimarket.info/showart.php?id=38599