Ukrainian farmers by November 25 had harvested 63.81 million tonnes of main agricultural crops from a total area of 16.03 million hectares, while 1.5 million tonnes were harvested from 100,000 hectares for the period November 18-25, according to website of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food.
The report clarifies that for the week the total area of farmland from which the harvest was collected increased by 1 percentage point (p.p.) – up to 82% of the previously planned area.
In terms of crops, the harvesting of wheat, barley, peas and rapeseed has been completed. During the week, the volumes of harvested millet (95% harvested), buckwheat (98%), sunflower (96%), soybeans (97%) did not change, but the volumes of harvested sugar beets increased to 93% (3 p.p.) and corn to 53% (3 p.p.)
According to the ministry, the final harvest of wheat this season amounted to 19.4 million tonnes from 4.7 million hectares, barley – 5.6 million tonnes from 1.6 million hectares, rapeseed – 3.2 million tonnes from 1.1 million hectares, peas – 261,000 tonnes from 111,000 hectares.
In addition, by November 25, a total of 13.5 million tonnes of corn (up 1.2 million tonnes per week) were harvested from 2.2 million hectares (up 100,000 hectares), 9.8 million tonnes of sunflower from 4.5 million ha (no change), 8.2 million tonnes of sugar beets (up 300,000 tonnes) from 166,000 hectares (up 4,000 hectares), 3.6 million tonnes of soybeans from 1.5 million hectares (no change), 156,000 tonnes of buckwheat from 115,000 hectares (unchanged), as well as 98,000 tonnes of millet from 42,600 ha (unchanged).
According to the ministry, the average yield for all crops in the current season was 43.7 centners per hectare, including corn – 60.1 centners per hectare, wheat – 41.2 centners per hectare, barley – 35.1 centners per hectare, rapeseed – 28.9 centners/ha, soybeans – 24 centners/ha, peas – 23.4 centners/ha, millet – 23.1 centners/ha, sunflower – 21.7 centners/ha, buckwheat – 13.7 centners/ha, sugar beets – 495 centners/ha.
By August 19, Ukrainian farmers harvested 23.4 million tonnes of grain and leguminous crops (2.6 million tonnes more during the week of August 12 through August 19) from a total area of 6.1 million hectares (0.6 million hectares more), the Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food reported on its website on Friday.
The crop was harvested from 55% of the planned areas, while a week earlier this figure was 49%.
“The harvest of 2022 continues. According to the latest data, 91% of wheat, 96% of barley, 97% of peas, and 98% of winter rapeseed have been harvested. The leaders in harvesting are Mykolaiv region – 86%, Odesa region – 85%, Volyn and Dnipropetrovsk regions – 70% each, Kirovohrad – 60%,” the ministry said in a statement.
In general, 17.4 million tonnes of wheat (2.0 million tonnes more in a week) were harvested from 4.3 million hectares (0.5 million hectares more), 5.3 million tonnes of barley (0.4 million tonnes more) from 1.5 million hectares (0.1 million hectares more) and 243,700 tonnes of peas (4,700 tonnes more) from 108,000 hectares (2,000 hectares more). Also this week, harvesting of millet has begun, of which 7,700 tonnes have been harvested from 3,200 thousand hectares.
In addition, by August 19, Ukraine harvested 3.1 million tonnes of winter rapeseed (0.2 million tonnes more in a week) from 1.08 million hectares (40,000 hectares more).
According to the ministry, the average yield of wheat was 40.4 tonnes per ha, barley – 3.45 tonnes per ha, rapeseed – 2.84 tonnes per ha, millet – 2.39 tonnes per ha, peas – 2.26 tonnes per ha. At the same time, the highest average yield of grain and leguminous crops was recorded in Khmelnytsky region – 6.2 tonnes per ha.
From the beginning of the harvesting campaign as of August 20, Ukrainian farmers have harvested 43.7 million tonnes (4.2 million tonnes more per week from August 13 to August 20) of early grains and legumes, as well as oilseeds from an area of 9.2 million hectares (98% of the forecast).
According to the Information and Analytical Portal of the agro-industrial complex of Ukraine, in the context of crops, the following were threshed: wheat of 32 million tonnes from an area of 6.9 million hectares (98% of the total area under this crop), barley of 10.27 million tonnes from 2.4 million hectares (99%), rapeseed of 2.7 million tonnes from 1 million hectares (99%), peas of 560,000 tonnes from 24,000 hectares (99%).
It is specified that in six regions the grain harvest exceeded 3 million tones, namely in Kharkiv (3.45 million tonnes), Odesa (3.39 million tonnes), Dnipropetrovsk (3.36 million tonnes), Mykolaiv (3.25 million tonnes), Zaporizhia (3.22 million tonnes) and Kherson (3.11 million tonnes) regions.
According to the portal, the average yield of harvested wheat was 46.2 dt/ha, barley was 41.0 dt/ha, rape was 27.5 dt/ha, peas was 23.2 dt/ha.
The portal said the harvesting of early grains, legumes and rapeseed was completely completed by the agrarians from 12 regions. At the same time, wheat harvesting has been completed in 15 regions, barley in 17 regions, peas in 23 regions.
Agricultural producers of Khmelnytsky region became the leader in average grain yield, reaching 60.9 dt/ha. Farms in Vinnytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Ternopil and Cherkasy regions have an average yield exceeding 50 dt/ha.
According to the portal, the agrarians of Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Poltava and Sumy regions started to collect buckwheat, and Mykolaiv and Kherson regions – millet.
Since the beginning of the harvesting campaign as of July 30, Ukrainian farmers have harvested 24.3 million tonnes (10.2 million tones more in a week from July 26 to July 30) of grain and leguminous crops from an area of 5.7 million hectares (37% from the forecast).
According to the information and analytical portal of the agro-industrial complex of Ukraine, in the context of crops, the following were threshed: wheat – 16.9 million tonnes from an area of 3.8 million hectares (55% of the total area under this crop), barley – 6.83 million tonnes from 1.67 million hectares (68%), rapeseed – 1.48 million tonnes from 570 hectares (56%), peas – 410,000 tonnes from 180,000 hectares (77%).
According to the portal, the yield of harvested wheat was 44,500 tonnes per ha, barley – 41,100 tonnes per ha, peas – 22,500 tonnes per ha.
The portal said that the leaders in harvesting since the beginning of the harvesting campaign are Kherson (the harvest was harvested from 90% of the area), Mykolaiv (74%) regions. At the same time, Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson regions have completely harvested peas, rapeseed is completely harvested in Kherson and Poltava regions.
The leaders in grain yield are agricultural producers of Volyn region, who harvested grain from 21% of the area with a yield of 61,100 tonnes per ha.
As of July 16, Ukrainian agrarians have harvested 5.5 million tonnes (more by 4.1 million tonnes per week from July 9 to July 16) of grain and leguminous crops from an area of 1.3 million hectares (9% to the forecast).
According to the information and analytical portal of the agrarian and industrial complex of Ukraine, in the context of crops, the following were threshed: winter barley – 2.9 million tonnes from an area of 685,000 hectares (28% of the total area under this crop), winter wheat – 2.5 million tonnes from 611,000 hectares (9%), and peas – 74,000 tonnes from 32,400 hectares (14%).
According to the portal, the leaders in harvesting since the beginning of the harvesting campaign are Kherson (the crop was harvested from 53% of the area), Mykolaiv (24%), Odesa (14%), Dnipropetrovsk (13%) and Donetsk (11%) regions.
As of November 30, Ukrainian agricultural producers harvested 80.9 million tonnes of basic crops from an area of 23.8 million hectares, in particular, 62.5 million tonnes of grain and leguminous crops were harvested from an area of about 15 million hectares (98% of the forecast).
According to a report on the website of the Ministry of Economy, the following crops were harvested: corn – 26.8 million tonnes from an area of 5.1 million hectares (94%), soybeans – 2.8 million tonnes from 1.3 million hectares (99%), sugar beet – 9 million tonnes from an area of 212,200 hectares (98%).
