The State Statistics Service has released data on the agricultural harvest for the previous year, indicating a productive season with significant yields across a variety of crops. The harvest included wheat (21.63 million tons), barley (5.5 million tons), corn (31.03 million tons), rye (231.2 thousand tons), oats (427.3 thousand tons), buckwheat (210.7 thousand tons), millet (203.5 thousand tons), and legumes (460.6 thousand tons, including 368.4 thousand tons of peas and 71 thousand tons of beans). The production of industrial crops such as sunflower seeds, rapeseed, soybeans, and sugar beets was also notable, with sunflower seeds leading at 12.76 million tons.