The agriculture Ministry predicts that in 2015 a record gross collecting soybean, flax, oilseed crops and maize.

So, the gross harvest of soybeans in 2015 is projected at 2.8 million tonnes (last year – 2.5 million tons).

Soybean farmers have achieved a record in the history of culture in the Russian Federation, indicators. Soybeans threshed with 99.4% of the area, and produced 2.8 million tons with an average yield of 14.2 tons per hectare (in 2014 from 13.6 tons per hectare).

Back in 2010, the sown area under soybean was 1205,7 thousand hectares and the gross harvest stood at 1222,4 thousand tons of oilseed with the yield of 11.8 tons per hectare. Over the last 5 years, sown area under this crop has increased more than 1.7 times, amounting in 2015 1990,7 thousand hectares, production has increased more than 2 times.

The leaders in gross yield of soybeans are Amur region (1067,3 thousand tons), Belgorod region (338,9 thousand tons), Krasnodar region (265,2 thousand tons) and Primorsky Krai (252,2 thousand tons).

Every year more and more farmers prefer soybean - sown area, gross harvest and yield of this important protein crops in recent time have stable positive dynamics.

Also forecast a record gross harvest of flax – more than 550 thousand tons (in 2014 – of 385.6 thousand tons).

The leaders in gross yield of oilseed flax are the Voronezh region (98.8 thousand tonnes), Rostov region (97.5 thousand tons) Volgograd region (56,0 thousand tons), Stavropol Krai (52.7 thousand tons).

Gross harvest of oilseeds is expected to more than 14 million tons (in 2014 – 13.8 million tons). Estimated production of oilseeds will provide the population with vegetable oil at the level of 2 million tons and export about 2.4 million tons.

Along with oilseeds expected a record grain crop of corn – more than 12 million tons. According to operational data of the agricultural administrative bodies of subjects of the Russian Federation as of November 16 this year, the corn threshed from 86.6% of the area harvested 12154,0 thousand tons (in 2014 – 10655,0 thousand tons), with a yield of 51.5 t/ha (in 2014 is 45.4 kg/ha).

The leaders in gross yield of corn are the Krasnodar territory (3239,4 thousand tons), Voronezh region (1028,8 thousand tons), Belgorod region (1002,1 thousand tons).