In the Stavropol region of Russia, a large crop of beets was harvested

The Stavropol Territory has completed harvesting sugar beets with a record harvest over the past 5 years, the staff correspondent of KazakhZerno.kz reports. 2 million tons of root crops have been dug up. This is 10% more than last year. Twice local sugar beet growers reached the threshold of 2 million tons: five years ago it was 2.2 million tons, and 6 years ago - 2.4 million tons. The quality of the industrial crop harvested in the region was rated as good. The sugar content of beets is 16.5%, which is 3% higher than a year earlier. On average, 638 centners of beets were harvested per hectare. This is the second result in the history of the regional agro-industrial complex: 697 centners per hectare were harvested only in 2016. The increase in the gross harvest of sugar beet ...