RUSSIA: Crop harvest nears 100 million tonnes

 

As of today, the grain crop has been harvested on an area of 37 million hectares, with a yield of over 98 million tonnes and an average yield of 26.6 cwt/ha.

 

Separately by crops:

 

Crop	Harvested from area, mln ha	Harvested volume, mln tonnes	Average yield, cwt/ha
Wheat	24,3	70,5	29
Barley	7,2	17,4	24,2
Grain maize	0,2	0,9	45,4
Rice	0,006	0,04	63,2
Sunflower	1,0	1,6	16,3
Rapeseed	0,8	1,5	19,1
Soybeans	0,4	0,6	16,3
Sugarbeet	0,14	5,3	381,5

 

Winter crops have been planted on 7.3 million hectares in the Russian Federation.