More than one million tons of grain have been threshed in the Krasnodar region in just a few days since the beginning of the harvesting campaign. This was announced by regional governor Veniamin Kondratiev in his Telegram channel.
The head of Kuban noted that the average yield today was 65.4 tons per hectare.
«We have already threshed the first million tons of grain. The harvest has been gathered on almost 166 thousand hectares of fields», — said Kondratiev.
The head of the region also published a video with the work of combine harvesters in Kanevsky district of Krasnodar region, where 80 thousand hectares of winter crops are to be harvested.
The region plans to fully complete the harvesting campaign in just two weeks so that the crops do not have time to spoil. According to the Kuban administration, the agrarians are provided with equipment and fuel and lubricants in the required volumes.
As previously reported, the 2023 grain and legume harvest exceeded 11.3 million tons.