Almost the entire rapeseed crop was harvested in Transbaikalia

The rapeseed harvesting campaign is nearing completion in the Trans-Baikal Territory. Agricultural farms threshed 24 thousand hectares, or 90% of this crop.

It is planned to complete the cleaning by the end of next week, Regional Minister of Agriculture Albina Koreshkova said. According to her, quoted by ChitaMedia news agency, the average yield is 10.1 hundredweight per 1 hectare.

Almost 80% of rapeseed crops are concentrated in the Chernyshevsky district. The breeding plant removed 94% of the planned 19.2 thousand hectares from its fields. agrarians of Krasnokamensk and Uletovsky districts threshed about 900 hectares, farms of the Alexandrovo-Zavodsky district - 775 hectares, and farms of Chita — 478 hectares.

Earlier, Dmitry Patrushev, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, said at a meeting of Russian agriculture ministers of various years that ensuring food security and protecting the domestic market are the main priorities of state policy in the field of agriculture.

Patrushev announced on October 2 that the harvest of grain and leguminous crops in Russia by the end of 2026 is expected to reach 140 million tons, and oilseeds — 35 million tons. According to the Deputy Prime Minister, yields in most areas are now higher than last year. In addition, the authorities have allocated substantial resources to support the industry.