A sharp cold snap in Tatarstan, Russia helped farmers to increase the topics of the harvesting campaign

Sunflower Seed

Maize (Corn)

Sugar Beet

Russia

Published Nov 20, 2022

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In Tatarstan, harvesting work continues on three crops - sugar beet, corn and sunflower. For sugar beet, 48.8 thousand ha or 98% were harvested out of 50 thousand hectares. 1.86 million root crops have been dug up, the average yield in the republic is 382 centners per hectare, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Nail Zalakov said at a meeting in the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan.

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In Tatarstan, harvesting work continues on three crops - sugar beet, corn and sunflower. For sugar beet, 48.8 thousand hectares or 98% were harvested out of 50 thousand hectares. 1.86 million root crops have been dug up, the average yield in the republic is 382 centners per hectare, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Nail Zalakov said at a meeting in the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan. “If before the frost harvesters practically could not work, and about 300 hectares were harvested, then with the onset of sub-zero temperatures, the pace of work increased significantly - up to 900 hectares per day. During the current week, 3.9 thousand hectares of land have been excavated,” Nail Zalakov noted. Farmers have yet to harvest 1,300 hectares of land in Buinsky, Muslyumovsky, Tetyushsky and Apastovsky districts. 54 beet harvesters are involved in the digging. The daily output per combine is on average up to 20 hectares. The largest beet ...

Source: Zol