Winter barley in Belarus has been harvested on 92.8% of the area, BelTA learned from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food.
As of July 19, grain and leguminous crops (without corn, buckwheat, millet) harvested 160.6 thousand hectares, or 8.11% of the plan. 559.7 thousand tons of grain were harvested with an average yield of 36.6 centners per hectare.
Winter barley was harvested on 142.1 thousand hectares (92.8% of the harvested area), 496.3 thousand tons were harvested with an average yield of 34.9 centners per hectare. Winter rapeseed for grain was harvested on 60.4 thousand hectares (18.1% of the harvested area), threshed 126.2 thousand tons with an average yield of 20.9 centners per hectare.
Flax has been hauled out on 6.88 thousand hectares, which is 15.8% of the harvested area. Harvested 345.3 thousand tons of hay - 35.9% of the plan, 7862.2 thousand tons of haylage - 57.4% (including 254.3 thousand tons in polymer packaging), 344.9 thousand tons of grain haylage and 195.7 thousand tons of silage - 1.02%.
Intermediate annual crops were sown on 90.4 thousand hectares of land.
In total, this year it is planned to obtain 9.6 million tons of fodder units from grasses. By this time, 26.2% of the plan has been prepared. It is planned to harvest almost 19.2 million tons of silage, 13.7 million tons of haylage (including 1 million tons in polymer packaging), and 962.1 thousand tons of hay.