Agriculture

The structure of land use: agricultural land constitute 60.4% of the country, grassland, mainly fertile pastures – 14%, 31% of arable land. Grown cereals (rye, oats, barley, wheat, buckwheat), hemp, tobacco, hops, flax, potatoes, sugar beets, fodder plants, fruit (apple trees), vegetables. As a result of the outbreak of a nuclear plant in Chernobyl in Ukraine in 1986 major agricultural areas in south-eastern parts of the country have been heavily contaminated and are not used for agriculture. Developed breeding cattle, swine, poultry and animal fur and bee-keeping. Developed forestry.