This year farmers of the Republic will have to remove the pic with the area of 19 thousand 460 hectares, that is 1 thousand 200 hectares more than last year. Today has threshed a little more than 1 thousand ha Gross yield, the average yield of 39.5 tons per hectare is up to date 4 thousand 190 tons. More than half this volume (2 thousand 870 tons) harvested by farmers in the Kizlyar district.

Also, the region continues harvesting corn for grain and sunflower.

Corn harvested from an area of 9 thousand hectares. 879 In this case the gross yield is 64 278 thousand tons, which is about 9 thousand tons more than in the same period of 2016. Productivity is also 21 per quintal over last year's figures of this period – 65 kg/ha against 44ц/ha. In the lead – agriculture Khasavyurt (more than 17 thousand tons) and Derbent (15 thousand tons) areas.

Sunflower removed from 568 5 thousand ha croppage of culture is 7 thousand 363 tons. For comparison, over the same period last year was removed 5 645 thousand tons of sunflower. The lead farmers of the Khasavyurt district, which contains more than 5 thousand tons.

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