The sugar beet harvest has reached 517,000 tonnes, with an average yield of 409 centners per hectare. The regional breakdown is as follows: 274,000 tonnes in Minsk Oblast, 184,000 tonnes in Grodno Oblast, 37,000 tonnes in Mogilev Oblast, and 22,000 tonnes in Brest Oblast. «The regions are harvesting at a faster pace than last year,» the press service noted.

The potato harvest has reached 64,000 tonnes, with an average yield of 364 centners per hectare. Mogilev Oblast leads the harvest with 27,000 tonnes. It is followed by Brest Oblast (15,000 tonnes), Minsk Oblast (8,000 tonnes), Gomel Oblast (7,000 tonnes), Vitebsk Oblast (4,000 tonnes), and Grodno Oblast (3,000 tonnes).

Grain crops (including rapeseed but excluding corn) have been harvested from an area of 2,459,000 hectares. This represents nearly 99% of the total planned area of 2,497,000 hectares.

A total of 492,000 hectares have been plowed for the sowing of winter grain crops, reaching 33% of the 1.5-million-hectare plan. Deliveries under the state procurement system include: 653,000 tonnes of food grain (over 98% of the 663,000-tonne target) and more than 93,000 tonnes of malting barley (109% of the 86,000-tonne target).

Corn for silage and green fodder has been harvested from 8% of planted areas (or 77,000 hectares). 

Second cut was harvested across an area of 918,000 hectares or 91% of the plan. Hay production has reached 571,000 tonnes or 80% of the plan. Silage harvest progress stands at over 2 million tonnes (10%). Forage grass harvest reached 4.317 million tonnes or 43% of the target. Haylage production has reached 12.363 million tonnes, or 86% of the target. 

Fertilizer stocks (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium) for winter planting have been procured at 163% of the planned requirement.