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The harvest of cereals in Castilla y León increases by 10% compared to last season
20/07/2011
July 20, 2011
The Minister of agriculture and animal husbandry of Castilla y León, Silvia Clement during his visit to several plots of cultivation of cereal in the province of Soria, where tasks of gathering, carried out has given the advances of area and production of this crop in Castile and León, Spain. The surface of grain this year, without taking into account the corn is 1.891.279 hectares, with a production of 6.621.412 tonnes. A few figures that are this year's harvest 10% more than last season and 13% more than the average for the period 2001-2010.
These datossitúan back to Castile and Leon, with 63.183 farmers who grow grain as the first autonomous Community producer of cereals, with 40% of the 16.188.800 tons are planned for national production.
The increased production in this campaign corresponds to barley, with 3.142.604 tonnes, 4% more than the last harvest; followed by wheat, with 2.923.682 tonnes, 15% more than last year; oats, with 291.963 tonnes, with a similar to the 2010 production; and rye, with 263.163 tonnes, 43% more than in last year's harvest.
