Ukrainian agrarians harvested 75.03 million tons of major crops from the total area of 17.96 million hectares by January 6, 2023, 700 thousand tons of corn was harvested from 0.1 million hectares last week, the harvesting of which was previously stopped due to adverse weather conditions.
As reported on the website of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food on Friday, the total area of agricultural land, from which the harvested, increased at the expense of harvested corn by 1 percentage point (p.p.) – to 93% of the previously planned areas.
In terms of crops harvesting of wheat, barley, peas, rapeseed and sugar beets was completed. During the week the area of harvested corn increased by 3 p.p. – to 81% of the planned indicators, while the area of harvested buckwheat (98%), as well as millet, sunflower and soybeans (99%) remained unchanged.
According to Minagropolitiki, the final yield of wheat in the current season amounted to 20.2 million tons from 5 million hectares, barley – 5.8 million tons from 1.7 million hectares, rape – 3.2 million tons from 1.1 million hectares, pea – 269 tons from 118 thousand hectares, sugar beet – 9 million tons from 180 thousand hectares.
In addition, January 6, 22.1 million tons of corn (+0.7 million tons per week) from 3.4 million hectares (+0.1 million hectares), 10.5 million tons of sunflower from 4.8 million hectares, 3.7 million tons of soy from 1.5 million hectares, 158 tons of buckwheat from 116 thousand hectares, and 102 tons of millet from 44.7 thousand hectares were gathered in total.
According to the Ministry, the average yield on all crops in the current season was 46.4 c/ha, including corn – 64.8 c/ha, wheat – 40.5 c/ha, of barley – 34.7 centners/ha, rape – 28.6 centners/ha, soy – 24.3 centners/ha, pea – 22.8 centners/ha, millet – 22.8 centners/ha, sunflower – 21.7 centners/ha, buckwheat – 13.7 centners/ha, sugar beet – 501 centners/ha.
It is reported that farmers of Nikolaev, Odessa, Chernivtsi and Vinnytsia regions have completed the harvesting of all crops. Most cereals and leguminous crops were threshed in Vinnitsa region – 4 million tons, and their highest yield was recorded in Khmelnytsky region – 70.9 c/ha.
As reported, Ukraine in 2021 harvested a record since the independence of cereals, legumes and oilseeds in the amount of 106 million tons: UAH 84 million of cereals and legumes, and 22.6 million tons of oilseeds.
A total of 32.4 million tons of wheat, 40 million tons of corn, 10 million tons of barley, 581.5 thousand tons of peas, 191 thousand tons of millet and 110 tons of buckwheat were harvested last year. Sunflower harvest amounted to 16.3 million tons, soybeans – 3.4 million tons and rapeseed – 2.9 million tons.
