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Ukraine threshed 2.1 mln tons of grain of harvest-2023

14 July , 2023  

Agrarians of 22 regions have harvested early grain and leguminous crops on the area of 643.8 thousand hectares and threshed 2 million 157 thousand tons of grain at a yield of 33.5 c/ha, the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food reported.

According to the report, the leaders in terms of threshing are the agrarians of Odessa and Mykolayiv regions, who threshed 746 thousand tons and 213 thousand tons of grain respectively.

In total, Ukraine has harvested barley on 352.4 thousand hectares (24.6%), which is 16% of the planned, from which threshed 1.3 million tons at a yield of 37.2 c/ha.

Wheat was harvested from 211.8 thousand hectares (4.7%). At a yield of 36.8 c/ha it was harvested 778.7 thousand tons.

Peas were harvested from 45 thousand hectares (31.3%). At a yield of 20.8 c/ha it was threshed 93.7 thousand tons.

Also, agrarians of 12 regions have started harvesting winter rape: 329.5 thousand tons of seeds have been harvested at a yield of 20.8 c/ha on the area of 158 thousand hectares (11.5%).

As reported, winter wheat sowing this season amounted to 4166 thousand hectares (-834 thousand hectares to the previous season), winter barley – 536 thousand hectares (-255 thousand hectares), rape – 1374 thousand hectares (+110 thousand hectares).

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