Last week weather conditions were favorable for ripening and harvesting of late spring crops. Cornfield research in Dniepropetrovsk region showed that corn varieties of ultra-early, early-optimal and late sowing terms were 250-271 cm, 257-282 cm and 242-270 cm high, respectively. In the corn plants of all sowing terms grain in the head reached the stage…
As of September 1, grains and pulses have been harvested from 9832 thousand ha (69% of the intended area) compared with 10343 thousand ha as of September 1, 2015. Farmers obtained 38.353 MMT with average yields at 3.9 MT/ha (on the same date in 2015 – 37.106 MMT with average productivity at 3.59 MT/ha). Buckwheat…
The Ministry of Agriculture of Russia set a task to double the production volumes of corn in the country in the short term, the Director of the Department of plant growing, chemicalization and plant protection at the Ministry of Agriculture Petr Chekmarev declared. At the same time, Chekmarev reminded that in general, the Ministry planned…
According to official data, as of August 19, Russian farmers have threshed 24.4 million ha (51.7%) of grains and legumes against 21.5 million ha as of the same date in 2015. 77.4 MMT was harvested with average yield of 3.17 MT/ha (in 2015 – 61.4 MMT with 2.85 MT/ha). Wheat was threshed from 15.1 million…
The beginning of 2016/2017 season was characterized by constantly raised grain production estimates. Revision of harvesting area expectations and record high grain yields were the main drivers of crop estimates increase. Rosstat informed that winter crops losses were only 364 thousand ha during wintering. This is 3.1% of total planted area compared to February estimates…
In the 2015/2016 marketing year rapeseed gross production in Russia reached slightly more than 1000 KMT. This result was obtained in conditions of decreasing planted area for the second consecutive season to 1038 thousand ha compared with record 1326 thousand ha in the 2013/2014 marketing year. In addition to acreage reduction, the productivity has also…
As of September 5, Russian agrarians continued harvesting grains and pulses. Agrarians harvested grain crops throughout the general areas of 34.5 million ha (on the same date in 2015 – 27.7 million ha), or 73% of the planned areas (47.3 million ha). The produced volumes reached 95.6 million tons of grains, with the average yield…