12.10.08

Russia’s grain harvest this year has climbed above the 100-million-tonne mark to a 15-year record-high, Agriculture Minister Alexei Gordeyev told a news conference in Moscow on Thursday.

“The gross grain harvest is a little above 100 million tonnes. This is a record amount for the past fifteen years. The highest yields were in the Krasnodar Territory, Rostov Region, Voronezh Region, the Republic of Tatarstan and a number of others. All-time records were set by the Stavropol Territory (over 8 million tonnes), the Voronezh Region (over 5 million tonnes) and Lipetsk Region (over 3 million tonnes),” he said.

For the first time in Russia’s recent history grain growers collected a record-big amount of the staple crop ­63 million tonnes of wheat, including 34 million tonnes of milling wheat, which is 6 million tonnes more than last year.

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Source: Itar-Tass