As of October 1, the general production of spring grains and pulses in Russian agricultural organizations reached 110.6 million tons in bunker weight, up by 16.2% YoY, the Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation (Rosstat) announced.
According to the announcement, the agricultural organizations, which concentrated 67.9% of the whole planted areas under grains and pulses (excluding corn), harvested the crops throughout 27.8 million ha, or 93.1% of the planted areas, against 26.3 million ha on October 1, 2015. The production volumes reached 75.1 million tons, the average yield totaled 2.7 ton/ha (on September 1, 2015 – 65.5 million tons and 2.48 ton/ha, respectively).
In particular, wheat production in agricultural organizations totaled 52.2 million tons against 43.7 million tons on the same date last year. The average yield totaled 2.96 ton/ha against 2.68 ton/ha, Rosstat specified. The harvest volumes of corn reached 2.6 million tons with the yield at 5.4 ton/ha, sunflower seed – 2.4 million tons, with the yield at 2 ton/ha. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)