Belarusian farms have threshed over 1 million tons of grain

July 21, Minsk / Tatiana Chumakova - BELTA /. Belarusian farms have threshed 1 million 86.9 thousand tons of grain. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by Daria Kozlovskaya, press secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food. The average yield of grain and leguminous crops is 31 centners per hectare. The highest yield is in the Grodno region (40.9 centners per hectare). The largest amount of grain was threshed in the Gomel region - 338.4 thousand tons. The Brest region is in second place in terms of threshing (213.9 thousand tons), and the Mogilev region is in third place (194.8 thousand tons). Farms in the Minsk region threshed 166 thousand tons, Grodno region - 89 thousand tons, Vitebsk region - 85 thousand tons. A total of 351.1 thousand hectares of grain and leguminous crops have been harvested in the republic (14.4% of the plan). Farms in the Gomel region are leading in terms of harvesting speed (33.8% of the target). In the Mogilev region, 18.5% of these crops have already been harvested, in the Brest region - 18.1%, in the Minsk region - 8.9%, in the Vitebsk region - 6.7%, in the Grodno region - 6.2%. The harvesting of malting barley has begun. 12.1 thousand hectares have been harvested (14.3% of the sown area). 41.6 thousand tons of barley have been threshed with a yield of 34.3 centners per hectare. Winter rapeseed has been harvested from 224.5 thousand hectares (82.7% of the plan). 360.8 thousand tons have been threshed with an average seed yield of 16.1 centners per hectare. -0-