BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

06/11/2007

Belarus: the farmers harvested the record harvest of maize grain

According to the Central Administration of plant growing at the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Belarus, the Belarusian farmers have finished the harvesting campaign of maize.

This year, the sowing areas under maize totaled 100.300 ha, up 1.3% as it was planned. They harvested 668.500 tonnes of maize grain at the average yield of 66.7 c/ha.

Next year they plan to increase the sowing area under maize to 200.000 ha to allow harvesting 1 mln tonnes of grain as minimum. In addition, the farmers are to increase the average yield of maize to 300 c/ha before 2010 to harvest the gross yield of maize at 13-14 mln tonnes.

Source:

http://www.agrimarket.info/showart.php?id=51956

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