Over 5.3m tonnes of sugar beet harvested in Belarus
13:00, 11 November
Belarus has harvested 5.316 million tonnes of sugar beet to date, with an average yield of 511 centners per hectare, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry.
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Minsk Oblast produced 1,938,000 tonnes, Grodno Oblast - 1,816,000 tonnes, Brest Oblast – 967,000 tonnes, Mogilev Oblast – 516,000 tonnes, Gomel Oblast – 44,000 tonnes, and Vitebsk Oblast – 35,000 tonnes. Sugar beet has been harvested from 104,000 hectares, which is 96% of the plan.
A total of 11,410,000 tonnes of grain, including rapeseed and corn, have been threshed in agricultural organizations and farms. Minsk Oblast harvested 3,124,000 tonnes, Grodno Oblast - 2,312,000 tonnes, Brest Oblast - 2,062,000 thousand tonnes, Mogilev Oblast - 1,404,000 tonnes, Gomel Oblast - 1,323,000 tonnes, and Vitebsk Oblast - 1,185,000 tonnes.
The following have been laid in: hay – 638,000 tonnes (89% of the plan), haylage - 13,191,000 tonnes (92%), silage - 19,981,000 tonnes (97%), and grass fodder - 9,468,000 tonnes of fodder units (93%). Corn for silage has been harvested from 100% of the areas.
In total, 190,000 tonnes of vegetables grown in open ground have been harvested nationwide, with a yield of 334 centners per hectare. 98% has been harvested. Autumn ploughing has been completed on 965,000 hectares - 67% of the plan.
Some 92% of the planned volume of mineral fertilizers (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium) has been accumulated for autumn plowing and spring sowing.
