RUSSIA HARVESTED LESS CORN THAN LAST YEAR

ST.PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, Aug 28, 2006 (A&G News via COMTEX) -- By the beginning of August Russia harvested 18,3 million tones of corn, that is by 2,4 million tones less than in the same period of the last year. As far as Rosstat informed on Monday, the part of wheat was 14,2 million tones of all the volume of the corn gathered. According to the data of the Minister of Agriculture, the gross corn harvest this year will come to 70-73 million tones. The MEDT forecasts the harvest at the volume of 75 million tones. Last year Russia gathered 78,2 million tones of corn.