This was announced by the governor of the region Yevgeny Kuyvashev during the plenary session "Crop production in Russia: Strategic guidelines and tools to achieve them", which took place as part of the All-Russian Field Day - 2020 in the Bryansk region.
“The harvesting campaign starts in the last decade of July. There are plans to harvest almost 676 thousand tons of grain, more than 218 thousand tons of potatoes and 44 thousand tons of open field vegetables, ”he said and added that the sown area of grain crops this year increased by 7,5 thousand hectares to the level Dec 2019
According to Kuyvashev, preparations for the harvesting campaign are going on as usual, the farmers are provided with all the necessary material and technical resources. Harvest forecasts are positive, he added.