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Over 500,000t of potatoes harvested in Belarus

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MINSK, 1 October (BelTA) – Belarusian agricultural workers have harvested 501,100 tonnes of potatoes, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry.

As of 1 October, some 7,877,900 tonnes of grain crops and rapeseed was cropped in Belarus. This included 6,837,300 tonnes of grain and leguminous crops as well as corn.

Harvesting of corn kernels is underway in all the oblasts of the country, with 59,000 hectares of land already cleared. Some 460,600 tonnes of corn kernels were threshed, with the yields averaging 78.1 centners per hectare.

Some 15,091,000 tonnes of corn for silage were cropped so far.

Brest Oblast, Grodno Oblast, Minsk Oblast and Gomel Oblast have completed buckwheat harvesting: 48,600 tonnes of buckwheat (yields are 14.5 centners per hectare) were threshed.

The flax straw harvest amounted to 118,300 tonnes.

Belarusian agricultural workers harvested 501,100 tonnes of potatoes. The yields average 351.4 centners per hectare.

Sugar beet harvesting is also in progress in Belarus. Some 1,439,300 tonnes of sugar beet were removed, with the yields standing at 453.3 centners per hectare.

Winter grain crops were sown on 1,153,900 hectares of land (75.1% of the plan), more than last year.

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