As of December 12, Russian agrarians continued harvesting grains and pulses. Agrarians harvested grain crops throughout the general areas of 45.9 mln ha (on the same date in 2015 — 44 mln ha), or 97.1% of the planned areas. The produced volumes reached 125.5 mln tonnes of grains, with the average yield of 2.74 t/ha (in 2015 – 108.8 mln tonnes with the yield of 2.47 t/ha), reported the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation.
In particular, agrarians already harvested corn for grain throughout 2.5 mln ha (87.7% of the plan), and produced 14.9 mln tonnes of the grain, with the average yield at 5.89 t/ha.
Russian agrarians continued the sunflower seed harvesting campaign. Agrarians harvested 11.3 mln tonnes of the oilseed throughout 7.2 mln ha (95.5%). The average yield totaled 1.58 t/ha.
Also, agrarians continued harvesting soybeans: the harvested areas reached over 2 mln ha (93.9%), the produced volumes – 3.2 mln tonnes, the average yield – 1.55 t/ha.
As of December 12, Russian agrarians planted winter crops for the harvest-2017 throughout 17.4 mln ha, or 100.1% of the planned areas (on the same date in 2015 — 16.3 mln ha).