4 Aug 2015 12:12

More than 1.36 mln tonnes of grain harvested in Crimea

SIMFEROPOL. Aug 4 (Interfax) - Crimean farmers harvested 1.362 million tonnes of grain during the harvest campaign of 2015, which is about 262,000 tonnes more than a year ago, the region's agriculture minister, Vitaly Polishchuk, said.

"The average harvest is 29 centners per hectare, which is almost 6 centners more than the result for last year. In total we are planning to harvest 1.4 million tonnes of grain, this will be 27% more than last year," Polishchuk said at a meeting of the Crimean Council of Ministers in Simferopol on Tuesday.

The minister also said that the harvest campaign in Crimea is 96% complete, more than half of the harvest of grain is wheat, and it amounts to 800,000 tonnes.