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Novosibirsk farmers record harvest of 3.5 million tons of grain
2021-11-09
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] The harvesting of grain and leguminous crops has been completed in the Novosibirsk Region. More than 3 million 480 thousand tons of grain have been threshed with a record yield for the region. This was reported by the regional government.

The authorities note that the achievement of high results was facilitated by the intensification of agriculture, the growth of technical equipment in agriculture and effective measures of state support.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture of the Novosibirsk Region, the average grain yield in the region was 23.3 centners
...a unit of weight in parts of the former Soviet Union equal to 100 kilograms (220.46 pounds) ...
per hectare this year. At present, all the harvesting areas of grain - about 1.497 million hectares, have been threshed. Collected 3,480.7 thousand tons of grain in original weight. There has not been such a volume of grain harvest in the region since 2009. So, in 2020, it was harvested 830,000 tons of grain less: 2,651.4 thousand tons.

The gross harvest of spring wheat amounted to 2.138 million tons in the originally capitalized weight, 85 percent of the harvested wheat falls on food grains of the 3rd and 4th class.
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Posted by:badanov

#2  Perhaps, just maybe, plants like warm weather and an atmosphere rich in yummy CO2.
Posted by: SteveS   2021-11-09 15:12  

#1  Global warming?
Posted by: Glenmore   2021-11-09 12:39  

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