BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

18/09/2007

Belarus: gross grain yield totaled 7.43 mln tonnes

According to Central Administration of plant-growing under Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Republic of Belarus, gross grain yield in all the enterprises of Belarus in 2007 totaled 7.43 mln tonnes, down only 300.000 tonnes as compared to 2004.

The agrarian enterprises threshed 6.89 mln tonnes of grain, up 78.000 tonnes against 2004 level. The yield of spiked cereals in bunker weight was 31.2 c/ha, up 1.7 centners as compared to the last year.

They harvested about 280.000 tonnes of malting barley to provide the execution of State order for this crop in full volume and provide needs of processing plants.

According to official data, the terms of harvesting campaign were quite tight - by September 15 it was completely finished.

Source:

http://www.agrimarket.info/showart.php?id=50006

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