AGRICULTURAL CROPS DECREASE
    BAKU/16.09.10/TURAN: A number of agricultural crops in Azerbaijan have decreased because of the reduction of the sown areas and productivity in 2010. The grain crops except corn were picked from 935,000 hectares (-156,000 hectares against 2009).
     The productivity was only 1.99 tons per hectare (-22%). The crop totaled 1.85 million tons (-1 million tons against 2009).
     The corn productivity was also low - 3.95 tons per hectare. It was 4.35 tons in 2009. The crop was 41,000 tons by September 1. The harvest is going on.
     The sunflower crop was 11,800 tons from 6,600 hectares. The productivity fell by 0.15 tons per hectare.
     This year"s vegetable crop was 13,000 tons less than in 2009. The index was 930,000 tons.
     The melon and watermelon crop was 375,000 tons in the period. The productivity was 12.7 tons per hectare (a good index for this crop). The harvest has not finished yet. --08B-

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