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Grain harvesting under completion in Azerbaijan

Business Materials 9 July 2020 19:08 (UTC +04:00)
Grain harvesting under completion in Azerbaijan

BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 9

By Fidan Babayeva – Trend:

Grain harvesting is being completed in Azerbaijan, Trend reports referring to the Azerbaijani Ministry of Agriculture.

As of July 9, the process of collecting grain crops in the country was completed by 82.6 percent.

According to the data, 264,380 tons of products were collected from the fields. Some 1.01 million tons of barley and 1.6 million tons of wheat were harvested. Currently, the average grain yield is 31.5 centners. The average yield of barley is 30.1 centners and of wheat - 32.4 centners.

As many as 882 combines are involved in the harvesting process, of which 227 are combines that are on the balance of Agroleasing OJSC and 503 combines are owned by individuals and legal entities.

Agroleasing OJSC additionally used 152 combines to actively harvest the crops.

More than 3.5 million tons of grain were collected in Azerbaijan in 2019, which is 6.9 percent more than in 2018.

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