Harvesting grain in Minsk Region to begin in late July - early August

18 июля 2017

Adjustment in the timing are due to the peculiarities of the weather this season.

Vladimir Grakun, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of Belarus: "Minsk region is currently harvesting winter rapeseed and winter barley. The yield of winter barley in Minsk Region is slightly below the level of the previous year. The fact that it rains is not bad, because we have such crops as sugar beet, which needs moisture."

According to experts, the average grain yield in Minsk Region this year is expected at the level of fifty centners per hectare.