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Russian grain harvest on the rise
19.07.2010 12:52 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
Russian farmers reaped 13.9 million metric tons of grain as of Thursday, 1.5 million tons more than a year previously, as hot weather accelerated crop-gathering.
Farmers harvested 4.3 million hectares (10.7 million acres), the Agriculture Ministry said on its website late Thursday. The average yield was 3.19 tons per hectare, compared with 3.23 tons last year, it said. Harvesting began last month.
The winter wheat crop came to 9.4 million tons as of Thursday, up 600,000 tons from last year, the ministry said. Yields were 3.16 tons per hectare, compared with 3.2 tons last year, it said.
The ministry said earlier this week it may cut its forecast for the total grain crop to below 85 million tons, compared with the 97 million tons Russia harvested last year, because of the drought. The harvest may be as low as 77 million tons, Russia’s Grain Producers Union said on Thursday.
SovEcon cut its forecast on Friday for this year’s harvest below 75 million tons from between 77 million tons and 81 million tons, the Moscow-based research group said on its website.
About 9.6 million hectares of plantings had been ruined by the drought as of Thursday, the ministry said.
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