The agriculture Ministry predicts this year the fall harvest of grain, potatoes and sugar beet in Russia in comparison with last year due to adverse weather conditions.

"Despite the fact that the weather in early summer has brought us many surprises in the form of precipitation and cold weather, Kuban farmers worked on conscience. 17 municipalities have already begun to obmolota winter barley. ... It is too early to make predictions, but I hope that this year we get a crop of not less than last year", — said Vladimir Kondratyev.

According to him, the cleaning will be done on 1.5 million hectares to be Completed in the usual terms, "all the preconditions for this," he added.

"Today, all enterprises of the agroindustrial complex of the region provided a combine technique. 220 units increased the number of harvesters. Now there are more than 6.7 thousand This will allow our producers to take on the day about 100 thousand hectares," — said the Governor.

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