60 percent of winter crops sown in Belarus

To date, 920 thousand hectares of winter crops have been sown - 60 percent of the planned area. Rates are higher than last year. In 2021, it was 54 percent. This was reported in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food. The leader is the Grodno region, where 71 percent of the planned areas are sown. In Minsk and Brest - 69, Mogilev - 62, Vitebsk - 50, Gomel - 40. Winter barley seeds have already fallen into the soil on 150,000 hectares, which is 2.5 times more than in the entire last year's autumn. The first 100,000 tons of corn have been threshed. The work was carried out on 5 percent of the planned areas. If they are not corrected, 2 million tons of this crop can be expected. Its ...