Almost 2.4 million tons of corn for grain have been threshed in Belarus

The country's farmers have almost finished harvesting corn. As of the morning of November 10, 99.8 percent of the area had been harvested and 2,384.8 thousand tons of corn grain had been threshed, the sb.by correspondent was told in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food. As explained in the department, the first to complete field work on corn were in the Brest and Minsk regions. According to operational information, the country's farmers are ahead of last year's pace. The leader in gross corn harvest is the Minsk region, where 784.9 thousand tons of grain were threshed. In second place is the Grodno region with a result of 534.5 thousand tons. The Brest region closes the top three with an indicator of 459.9 thousand tons. In turn, farmers of the Gomel, Mogilev and Vitebsk regions threshed 264.6, 192.3 and 148.6 thousand tons, respectively. As for the yield, the Grodno region is the leader in this indicator: on average, 102.5 centners of grain are harvested from each hectare. The ...