OREANDA-NEWS. July 31, 2009. As of today, the agricultural companies have collected 1.188,000 tonnes of grain including 286,000 tonnes of grain gathered on 30 July.

The Brest oblast leads the harvesting campaign in the country with 424,000 tonnes of grain. It is followed by the Gomel oblast (282,000 tonnes), the Grodno oblast (234,000 tonnes), the Minsk oblast (192,000 tonnes), the Mogilev oblast (30,000 tonnes) and the Vitebsk oblast (23,000 tonnes).

As of today, around 306,000 hectares under grain and leguminous crops apart for maize (or 13% of the total area) have been already cropped. Companies of the Brest oblast have already harvested 29.9% of the areas under crops. The Gomel oblast has harvested 23%, the Grodno oblast – 14%, The Minsk oblast – 7.9%, the Mogilev oblast – 2%, the Vitebsk oblast – 1.9%.

The grain yield makes up 38.89 centners per hectare, which is 3.49 centners more than in July last year. Companies of the Grodno oblast are the leaders of the harvesting campaign in terms of crop yield. On average, they harvest almost 47 centners per hectare.