2024-07-02 13:56:05
“Grain producers are massively harvesting wheat within the Dobrich area, in addition to barley. Some have already completed, others are nonetheless harvesting,” mentioned Radostina Zhekova, chairwoman of the Dobrudja Union of Grain Producers. Yesterday, she completed harvesting the 4,500 decares of wheat and barley she grows. “It makes an impression that an excellent work group has been created, the machines are nearly working easily,” she added. “If it would not rain for as much as 10 days, corn within the Dobrich area might turn into problematic. Its leaves are starting to shrivel up from the drought,” mentioned Zhekova.
Estimated wheat yields per hectare within the Dobrich area, which got originally of June, have been 520-540 kg per hectare. “Now we mass harvest round 640 kg as a median yield, there are fields with 900 kg per hectare, there are others the place the yield is round 500 kg per hectare. The image is colourful. The month of Could was extraordinarily good for wheat, it was cool, it poured grain, the symptoms of barley are additionally excellent,” explains Zhekova.
“Harvest goes at full pace within the Dobrich area. Among the cooperatives have already harvested, others are halving their areas. We are going to end the harvest by the tip of the week,” mentioned Kiril Komitov, chairman of the regional union of cooperatives “Dobrudja”. There are 67 cooperatives within the Dobrich area and they’re all reaping, he added. Based on Komitov, the harvest is nice, however the affords for the acquisition worth of wheat are very low.
Based on operational knowledge of the Regional Directorate “Agriculture”, 1,200,488 decares are planted with wheat within the Dobrich area. Through the survey carried out within the interval 7 – 13 Could by the Regional Directorate “Agriculture”, 100% of the areas with autumn wheat have been discovered to be in good situation is in predominantly excellent to good situation. The rains that fell at the moment had a helpful impact on the sowing of autumn crops. Then the assessments have been categorical – wheat and barley are in excellent situation – 70%, good – 28%, common – 2%.