Farmers in three regions of Ukraine have begun harvesting early grains and legumes and have harvested 34,800 tons of grain from the new harvest from an area of 14,200 hectares, which is 28% less than a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food.
The ministry noted that in the Odesa, Kherson, and Mykolaiv regions, 33,900 tons of barley were harvested from an area of 13,600 hectares with a yield of 24.9 centners per hectare, and 900 tons of peas were harvested from 600 hectares with a yield of 15.2 centners per hectare.
According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, the largest harvesting areas are expected in the Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Poltava, Vinnytsia, and Cherkasy regions, where the main work will begin in late June – early July.
The report states that this year, 1.398 million hectares are planted with barley in Ukraine, 210,400 hectares with peas, and early grains and legumes occupy a total of 11.1 million hectares.
As reported, the harvest in Ukraine in 2024 officially began on June 21, when farmers in the Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, Odesa, Mykolaiv, and Kherson regions harvested 48.3 thousand tons of grain from the new harvest, including 1.1 thousand tons of wheat with a yield of 22.0 cwt/ha, 39.9 thousand tons of barley with a yield of 29.8 cwt/ha, and 7.3 thousand tons of peas with a yield of 22.0 cwt/ha.
