On July 23, Grodno / Vladimir Matveev - BELTA /. All resources must be mobilized for the corn harvest. This was stated today by President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko in Grodno during a discussion of the harvesting campaign, BELTA correspondent reports. "We need to mobilize everything now for the corn harvest, now we need to think about the second wave of harvesting. I see that we will harvest the grain (cereals), and now the most important thing is to harvest the corn, which will give a noticeable increase," said the head of state. As reported to the President by the Minister of Agriculture and Food of the country, Mikhail Rusy, the average yield of grain in the republic is currently about 31.1 c/ha. In turn, in the Grodno region, the yield is 42.2 c/ha. Harvesting is actively carried out in all regions of the country, with about 5% of the areas harvested daily. As Mikhail Rusy noted, it is expected that by tomorrow the farmers of the republic will reach the threshing of 2 million tons of grain. In total, it is planned to thresh more than 8 million tons of grain (cereals).

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