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Belarus: vegetable crop will exceed 2 million MT |
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Monday, 01 October 2007 |
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Warsaw - According to the information presented
by representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs of Belarus for
the Interfax Agency, the country plans to harvest more than 2 million MT of
vegetables in the present season. “We forecast the vegetable crop to reach 2,08
million MT, which will draw level with the 2006 crop”, announced Belarusian
experts.
The vegetable harvest in
agricultural cooperatives will amount to 355,000 MT, including 96,000 MT of
white cabbage, 55,000 MT of beet root, 78,000 MT of carrot and 40,000 MT of
onion. The Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs of Belarus forecasts that the
total vegetable crop from cooperatives, other agricultural enterprises and
private farms will be sufficient for the needs of domestic market.
Additionally, the free resource of vegetables, which can be used for export is
evaluated at 153,000 MT. As Belarusian specialist reported, by September 27th,
the cabbage harvest was already finished on acreage of 195 hectares (10% of
total), carrot - 554 hectares (16.8%), beet root - 726 hectares (21.5%) and
onion - 1,9 thousand hectares (74%). It is planned that onion harvest will be
completed in the first decade of October and other vegetables by the end of
October.
The total potato crop is forecasted at 8,5 million MT, including 1 million MT
from cooperatives. By September 27th, 642 thousand MT of potatoes was harvested
from 30,100 hectares, about 67.4% of total acreage, with the average
productivity of 21.3 MT per hectare (17.46 MT per hectare in 2006).
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