BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

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Belarus: total grain harvest exceeds 4.5 million tons

According to Belarusian Ministry of Agriculture and Food total grain harvest exceeds 4.5 million tons. They report that for today overall harvested area comes to 1,453 million hectares, which is about 60 percent of total areas. Favorable weather conditions help faster harvesting. Harvest campaign in Belarus is to be finished on August 25. As for the yield, according to the Ministry's representative, average grain yield over the country is about 3.2 tonnes per hectare, which is 0.07 tonnes per hectare less than last year.

The most actively harvested crop in Belarus is barley, for today about 2/3 of barley crops have been trashed.

About 415,000 tonnes of harvested grains have already been given to State, which is about 41.5 percent of the planned volume.

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