The average yield is 475 centners per hectare (sugar content at 17%), which is 26 centners per hectare higher than last year’s figure.

The root crop has been harvested across 64,000 hectares, or 59% of the plan of 109,000 hectares. Regional breakdown looks as follows: Minsk Oblast — 1.133 million tonnes; Grodno Oblast — 1.042 million tonnes; Brest Oblast — 523,000 tonnes; Mogilev Oblast — 280,000 tonnes; Gomel Oblast — 23,000 tonnes; Vitebsk Oblast — 20,000 tonnes.

Some 79% of the harvested root crops have been transported to beet receiving stations. 1.903 million tonnes have been delivered under the state procurement order, or 57% of the plan.