70% of winter grain have been harvested in Bashkiria

Bashkir grain growers harvested over 166 thousand hectares of winter grain (more than 70% of the total area). The gross grain harvest amounted to almost 620 thousand tons, the average yield was 38.3 c/ha, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Bashkiria reported.

This is an outstanding figure even compared to the high yield of winter crops last year.

 The main part of the harvest is winter wheat - 540.7 thousand tons. Also, 72.5 thousand tons of winter rye and more than 4 thousand tons of triticale were collected.

 The largest volumes of grain were received by farms in the Sterlitamak and Aurgazinsky districts - from 59,000 to 67,000 tons.

 The harvesting of winter crops has been thoroughly completed in the Ishimbaysky district. In four more districts, more than 90% of the area has been threshed.

At the same time, the harvesting of spring crops has already begun - more than 79 thousand tons of grain of the new harvest have been collected to date.

Author: Elina Akhmetova