Farmers in Mykolaiv, Kherson and Zaporizhia regions have started harvesting winter wheat and as of June 18 they had harvested the first 10,500 tonnes from 4,000 hectares. According to the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, in addition to these regions, the harvesting campaign continues in Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk regions. “In general, 281,000 tonnes of grain have been harvested from 86,000 hectares with the yield being 32.6 centner per hectare, including 10,000 tonnes of winter wheat from 4,000 hectares with the yield being 26.2 centners per hectare, 268,000 tonnes of winter barley from 81,000 hectares with the yield being 33 centners per hectare, 2,000 tonnes of peas from 1,000 hectares with the yield standing at 22.7 centners per hectare,” the report said.
Zaporizhia, Odesa and Kherson regions have started harvesting winter rapeseeds, 6,000 tonnes of which has been threshed on 3,000 hectares with a yield of 17.4 centners per ha.
