Russia's grain planting area and yield are expected to increase in 2004
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Last Update: 2008-11-03
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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Introduction: 2003 according to Alexei gordeyev, Russian agriculture minister, on Tuesday, Russia plans to increase the total grain output this year from 73.5 million tons last year to 75-80 million tons, mainly through increasing the planting area 'the initial estimate is completely temporary, but we plan to set a goal for growers to produce 80 million tons of food, which is the net weight,' Mr gordyev said This year we expect the grain output (net weight) to be 4% lower than the gross weight Russia harvested 67.2 million tons of grain (net weight) in 2003, down from 86.6 million tons in 2002, due to higher than normal food losses in winter and delays in spring sowing due to cold weather Gordeyev predicted that the area of grain harvest in winter might increase due to the decrease of crop damage The sown area of winter grain harvested in 2004 decreased to 13.71 million hectares compared with 14.895 million hectares in 2003 According to gordeyev, in 2003, the winter grain yield reached 3.9 million hectares, and we expect that this year's yield will be tripled, so we expect that the winter grain yield will be 1 million hectares higher than last year Winter grain usually accounts for 30% - 40% of the total grain harvest FBC gordeyev predicted that the grain planting area in spring would increase to 32.5-33 million hectares by reducing the sunflower seed planting area and using the idle agricultural land in recent years.
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