Agrarians in all regions of Ukraine harvested 67 mln tonnes of grains and oilseeds, including 47.184 mln tonnes of grains and 19.958 mln tonnes of oilseeds, the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food reported.
According to the report, grain and leguminous crops were harvested on an area of 9324.6 thousand hectares with a yield of 50.6 c/ha.
To date, Ukraine has completed harvesting and threshing of barley from 1505 thousand hectares (101% of the plan), which yielded 5.890 million tons; wheat – from 4695 thousand hectares (101%), 22.409 million tons were harvested; peas – from 154.4 thousand hectares (103%), 398.2 thousand tons were harvested, and rapeseed – from 1396 thousand hectares (98%), 4.005 million tons of seeds were harvested.
The harvest of millet is nearing completion, with 178.6 thou tons harvested from 78.7 thou hectares (94%), and buckwheat – 206.5 thou tons harvested from 138.7 thou hectares (98%). Corn was harvested from 2420.1 thou hectares (60%), amounting to 17.133 mln tons.
In addition, other grains and legumes were harvested in the amount of 969.3 thou tons from 333.8 thou hectares.
Ukraine continues harvesting oilseeds, including sunflower – 11.310 million tons (11.074 million tons a week earlier) from 4.776 million hectares (94%), soybeans – 4.643 million tons (4.507 million tons) from 1.765 million hectares (97%).
Sugar beet was harvested from 183.8 thou hectares (155.4 thou hectares a week earlier), which is 50% of the planned area. The harvest amounted to 8.729 mln tons.
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy also monitors information on crop yields, which amounted to 47.7 c/ha for wheat, 39.2 c/ha for barley, 25.8 c/ha for peas, 22.7 c/ha for millet, and 14.9 c/ha for buckwheat. The yield of corn is 70.8 c/ha, rapeseed – 28.7 c/ha, soybeans – 26.3 c/ha, sunflower – 23.7 c/ha. The yield of sugar beet is 475 c/ha.
At the same time, the Ministry clarified that the largest grain harvest was recorded in Vinnytsia region, where farmers harvested almost 4 million tons. Cherkasy, Kirovograd, Poltava, Odesa and Dnipro regions harvested more than 3 million tons of grain each. Agricultural producers in Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Ternopil, Sumy, Khmelnytsky, and Chernihiv regions harvested 2 million tons of grain each.
The highest sunflower harvest was in Dnipropetrovska oblast – 1428 thou tons and Kirovohradska oblast – 1426 thou tons. The leader of soybean harvest is Khmelnytsky region – 576.9 thsd tonnes.
As reported, this season winter wheat plantings amounted to 4166 thou hectares (-834 thou hectares compared to the previous season), winter barley – 536 thou hectares (-255 thou hectares), and rapeseed – 1374 thou hectares (+110 thou hectares).
According to the adjusted forecast of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, in 2023, farmers will be able to harvest 79.1 mln tons of grains and oilseeds, including the following volumes: wheat – 21.7 mln tons, barley – 5.7 mln tons and corn – 28.5 mln tons. Gross production of oilseeds will reach 21.6 million tons, including 13 million tons of sunflower, 4 million tons of rapeseed, and 4.6 million tons of soybeans. The sugar beet harvest is forecast at 13.7 million tons.
