Russia's Grain Harvest Up By 6% Year-on-Year - Ministry

Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published June 29, 2019 | 12:40 AM

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 29th June, 2019) Russian agriculture firms gathered 8.6 million tonnes (19 billion Pounds) of grain in bunker weight as of June 26, which is an increase of 6 percent compared to the previous year, the Russian Agriculture Ministry said on Friday.

Grain and pulse crops were threshed on an area of 2.1 million hectares (5.

2 million acres), the ministry said.

By the same date last year, 4.9 million tonnes of grain were harvested, and the crops were threshed on an area of 1.3 million hectares.

The ministry expects the gross grain harvest in Russia to stand at 118 million tonnes in 2019, including 75 million tonnes of wheat. Last year, grain harvest in Russia amounted to 113.2 million tonnes, including 72.1 million tonnes of wheat.