In the Gomel region, corn is harvested by almost 80% for silage, for grain by a third

In the Gomel region, corn is harvested on silage for almost 80% of the area, on grain for a third. Such data was announced by the Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and Food of the Regional Executive Committee Anatoly Gaponik at a hardware meeting in the regional executive committee, BelTA reports.

According to the head, corn on the silo in the region remained to remove 49.5 thousand hectares. Anatoly Gaponik stressed that now farms are increasing the pace of cleaning, including through the point transfer of equipment from the final areas to those where it is still going.

“In general, taking into account the fact that we still have about 23 thousand hectares of various herbs, we plan to prepare 32.7 t of feed units for one conditional head of livestock according to the results of harvesting,” Anatoly Gaponik said.

As for corn for grain, more than 30% of the area has already been harvested in the region. The remaining front of work is 42.5 thousand hectares. “All areas were included in the cleaning,” the chairman of the committee stressed.

As follows from the information presented, the average yield of corn in the region when harvested for grain is currently 46 c / ha. In Zhitkovichi, Gomel, Buda-Koshelevsky, Svetlogorsk districts, this figure is much higher.

Belarusian farmers threshed more than 9.8 million tons of grain, including rapeseed and corn