According to forecasts of Ministry of agriculture, the harvest in 2016 will be about 38 thousand tons with a yield of 48 kg/ha, which is several thousand tons more than last year.
"As a result, the gross harvest of rice in the last ten years has increased three times and reached in 2015, 35.8 thousand tonnes with the average yield for the Republic is 47.5 quintals per hectare," – said in the Ministry of agriculture of RA.
The Ministry added that in 2016, the acreage of rice increased to 7.9 million hectares, which is more than three times above level of 2006. Rice is grown in three districts of the Republic, Krasnogvardeisky, Shovgenovsky and Takhtamukayskiy areas where major 14 rice farms of the Republic took the rice is almost 5 thousand hectares.
Translated by service "Yandex.Translation"