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AGROPRODSERVICE THRESHES 120,000 TONNES OF EARLY GRAIN, LEGUME CROPS

28 August , 2015  

KYIV. Aug 28 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Agroprodservice Corporation has finished harvesting early grain and legume crops, and has threshed 120,000 tonnes of grain, the company has said.

The company said that the harvest is the largest in the history of the company.

Average grain yield is over 7 centners per hectare, and wheat yield is 8 centners per hectare.

“This has become possible as Agroprodservice considerably improved organization and production technologies, planting of high-yielding grain crops [was successful], and more attention was paid to farming standards on the remote fields,” the company said on Thursday.

Agroprodservice Corporation was created in 1999. As a diversified enterprise, it operates in 50 settlements in seven districts of Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk regions. The company cultivates 37,000 hectares of land.