According to operative data, as of July 4 Russia harvested grains throughout the areas of 2.1 mln ha, and produced 5.8 mln tonnes of grains with the average yield of 27.6 c/ha (in 2011 - 45.4 c/ha), reported the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation.
To date the regions of the Southern, the North Caucasian, Central and Volga Federal Districts provide the harvesting campaign of grains and leguminous crops.
Besides, agrarians of Krasnodar and Stavropol Krais, the Republics of Adygea and North Ossetia-Alania started harvesting winter rapeseed. As of July 4, the regions harvested the oilseed throughout 14.8 thsd ha, and produced 17.3 thsd tonnes of the oilseed with the yield of 11.7 c/ha.
The Ministry of Agriculture noted that due to dry weather conditions prevailing in the 2-3 decades of May 2012, the conditions for forming of the harvest of grains, leguminous plants and other agricultural crops significantly worsened, leading to reduction of the yield indices compared to the ones in the beginning of the last year harvest campaign.
