OREANDA-NEWS Since the beginning of the year, the harvest of vegetables by Russian farmers has already exceeded the bar of 3 million tons, and both outdoors and in greenhouses there is an increase compared to last year, the Ministry of Agriculture reported.

"As of September 12, since the beginning of the year, over 2 million tons of open-ground vegetables have been harvested in the organized sector, which is 56.9 thousand tons more than in the same period last year... In addition, Russian farmers harvested more than 1.1 million tons of greenhouse products, which is 1.4% more than last year. Of these, the harvest of tomatoes is 470 thousand tons, and cucumbers - 620 thousand tons," the message says.

The leaders in the production of ground vegetables in our country, as noted, are the Astrakhan, Volgograd and Moscow regions, Krasnodar Territory, as well as the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic and Dagestan. And traditionally, the leading regions for the production of indoor vegetables in Russia are the Lipetsk, Moscow, Kaluga and Volgograd regions, as well as Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories, the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture adds.

On Monday, the ministry reported that Russian farmers have harvested more than 2.8 million tons of vegetables and greens since the beginning of the year.