Agrarians of all regions of Ukraine have harvested early grain and leguminous crops on the area of 3782 thousand hectares, having threshed 16 million 574 thousand tons of grain at a yield of 44 c/ha, the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food reported.
According to the report, in terms of threshing rates the agrarians of Mykolaiv and Odessa regions are leading, which threshed 1772.2 thousand tons and 2.009 million tons of grain, respectively. In these regions grain has been threshed on 82% and 64% of areas.
To date, Ukraine has harvested barley on 939 thousand hectares, which is 66% of the planned, of which threshed 3.755 million tons; wheat from 2.698 million hectares (60%) harvested 12.513 million tons; peas from 125.3 thousand hectares (87%) received 306.4 thousand tons.
In addition, on the area of 1182.3 thousand hectares (86% of the planned area) harvested 3319.8 thousand tons of winter rape.
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy changes weekly information about the yield of harvested crops and indicates its growth. Thus, for barley this week it amounted to 40 c/ha, and a week earlier 39.4%, wheat from 44.4 c/ha reached 46.4 c/ha, winter rape from 26.8 c/ha – to 28.1 c/ha. Only peas slightly “gave up positions” from 24.7 c/ha to 24.5 c/ha.
According to the report, agrarians of nine regions have completed pea harvesting. In Dnipropetrovsk region they have started harvesting buckwheat.
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).
The All-Ukrainian Agricultural Rada (AAR) and the Association of Milk Producers (AMP) will hold a mirror strike in response to the protest started by Polish farmers against the transit of Ukrainian agricultural products through Poland and will not allow Polish trucks into Ukraine.
“In protest against the actions of Polish agricultural producers who began a strike and blocked the border crossing point (BCP) “Dorohusk – Yagodin” for cargo with Ukrainian grain, domestic agricultural producers decided to act in the mirror,” – noted in a press release of the WAR.
It is emphasized that Ukrainian agrarians have taken a strong stance to protect their interests and the domestic agricultural sector. During the strike, they will block the movement of Polish trucks through four international checkpoints, viz: The checkpoint “Dorogusk – Jagodin” on the Ukrainian side, in the municipality of Krakivets near the checkpoint “Krakivets-Korcheva”, in the village of Rata near the checkpoint “Rawa-Russkaya” and in the village of Shehini near the checkpoint “Shehini-Medika”.
The action will begin on June 10 at 10:00 and will last until 00:00, June 14.
As reported, for several days, Polish farmers have been blocking the PP “Dorohusk – Jagodyn” in protest against the influx of Ukrainian grain to the Polish market.
Only vehicles carrying humanitarian aid are allowed to pass. As part of the protest, two trucks with humanitarian aid will pass from Poland to Ukraine per hour, and none from Ukraine to Poland.
According to data for Friday morning, about 320 heavy trucks stood in a nine-hour queue to leave Poland for Ukraine at the Dorohusk border crossing point. According to the Ukrainian side, there were 3,185 trucks registered in the electronic queue to enter Poland.
The Polish protest is expected to last until midnight on Monday.
State-owned Oschadbank (Kyiv) has launched a preferential lending program for agrarians for the 2023 sowing season to purchase seeds, plant protection products, microfertilizers and machinery from Spectrum-Agro LLC (Obukhiv, Kyiv region).
According to the press service of Oschadbank, farmers will be able to purchase agricultural machinery on credit at 5% and 9% per annum for working capital replenishment of up to UAH 90 million under the government program “Affordable Loans 5-7-9%”.
Microfertilizers, plant protection products and soybean seeds produced by Spectrum-Agro can be purchased at a rate of 0.01% per annum for up to UAH 20 million with a seasonally adapted repayment schedule, the release said.
According to Oschadbank, to obtain such a loan, it is enough to provide a simplified package of documents to obtain a decision on it. In addition to priority consideration of applications, all those who have taken advantage of the loan will be able to quickly receive a preliminary decision to replenish working capital through the online platform Agroapp.
The State Bank also reported that since February 24, 2022, it has provided about UAH 10 billion to agricultural enterprises under the Affordable Loans 5-7-9% program. The share of agricultural loans in the total portfolio of this program issued by Oschadbank during the war is 72%. The second place is occupied by trade enterprises, to which the bank issued 16% of loans under the affordable loan program.
“Spectr-Agro is a distributor of plant protection products, fertilizers and agricultural machinery from leading global and Ukrainian manufacturers (Deutz-Fahr, HARDI, Kockerling, Dieci, SOLA).
According to opendatabot, Spectrum-Agro increased its revenue by 1.2% to UAH 6 billion 262.6 million in 2022, while its net profit decreased by 20% to UAH 209.84 million.
State-owned Oschadbank, according to the National Bank, ranked 2nd in terms of total assets (UAH 311.19 billion) among 65 banks in the country as of March 1, 2023.
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.
Ukraine last year exported, according to preliminary data, agricultural products worth at least $20 billion, which is about half as much as in 2021, Ukrainian Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Nikolay Solsky said on the air of the national telethon on Wednesday.
He also stressed that this is still a very significant amount, especially taking into account the Russian Federation’s aggression and other circumstances under which Ukraine has performed external deliveries.
Solsky noted that in 2021 most of the foreign exchange earnings went to the Ukrainian agribusiness sector, while in 2022, infrastructure and logistics companies, including foreign ones, received a significant portion of the margin from crop exports.
“The ships that go with Ukrainian grain, insurance services and everything else, because of military risks and the conditions in which we live, have gone up significantly. But it is still the No. 1 item in foreign exchange earnings of the country, and there is a good chance that next year the situation will be similar,” the minister stressed in a video interview.
As reported, according to preliminary data Deputy Minister of Economy – Trade Representative of Ukraine Taras Kachka last year Ukraine exported 99.8 million tons of products and goods of all kinds totaling $ 44.1 billion, which is respectively 38.4% and 35% less than in 2021.
Most of the revenue was received from the export of agricultural products – corn at $5.94 billion (+1% compared to 2021), sunflower oil at $5.46 billion (- 14.4%), wheat – $2.6 billion (-44.7%), rapeseed – $1.54 billion (-8.6%), sunflower seeds – $1.26 billion (33 times growth), soybean – $862 million (+43%), poultry – $852 million (+19%).
According to the preliminary results of the implementation of the state program of financial support for activities in the agro-industrial complex by reducing the cost of loans in 2020, almost UAH 1.05 billion out of UAH 1.2 billion planned for 2020 was compensated to agrarians, the Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture said in a statement, published on its website on Tuesday.
“This year, under the program on reducing the cost of loans in the agricultural sector, UAH 24.8 billion were attracted. During the reporting period, more than 4,200 agricultural enterprises took advantage of the program. Due to this additional funding, they were able to update lines for the production and processing of agricultural products, build storages for vegetables, fruits and berries, and cover other production costs,” Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture Ihor Petrashko said.
According to the ministry, the top five regions in terms of loan compensation included Odesa (UAH 91.6 million), Kharkiv (UAH 71 million), Ternopil (UAH 68.9 million), Vinnytsia (UAH 66.5 million) and Cherkasy (UAH 65.4 million).
The Economy Ministry said that in October this year, the parliament adopted in the second reading bill No. 3295, which allows farmers to receive partial compensation for loans raised to replenish working capital. In pursuance of this law, the Economy Ministry is preparing appropriate amendments in the procedure for the use of funds (resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 300).
As reported, under the budget program of financial support for agricultural producers in the direction of financial support for activities in the agro-industrial complex by reducing the cost of loans in 2020, some UAH 1.2 billion are provided.
Of the total number of authorized banks that signed a memorandum on general principles of cooperation with the Economy Ministry (36 banks), some 33 banks participate in providing compensation for loans.
