BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS
DATE:
29/03/2007
Belarus: grains sowings cover one third of planned acreage
According to Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Belarus, sowings of spring grains covered 372.400 ha, that is one third of the total planned sowing area.
The reasons for increasing of sowing campaign speed are concentration of enterprises on soil preparation for sowing campaign, receiving of fuel and sowing equipment. In addition, unfavorable weather conditions without precipitations lead to soil drying, thus enterprises try to finish sowing campaign in proper time for seeds growing in favorable conditions.
According to Ministry of Agriculture and Food, by March 29 they prepared 492.000 ha for sowing, that is 21% of the total sowing acreage.
In addition, farmers continue additional fertilizing of winter grains and winter rapeseeds. According to calculations of Ministry, they should finish the first additional fertilizing by April 1.
Source:
http://www.agrimarket.info/showart.php?id=44428
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