As of November 3, 2026, Ukrainian farmers had harvested 60.6 thousand metric tons of buckwheat, which is 26.5% less than the corresponding preliminary figure from late October 2025. At the same time, the gross millet harvest increased by 46.2%, to 89,900 metric tons, according to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine.
According to the ministry, buckwheat has been threshed on an area of 46,600 hectares, or 95.9% of the projected area. The average yield is 13.0 centners per hectare.
For comparison, as of October 31, 2025, Ukrainian farmers had harvested 82.5 thousand metric tons of buckwheat.
Thus, the current production volume of this crop is approximately 21.9 thousand metric tons lower.
The 2026 millet harvest was conducted on an area of 38.8 thousand hectares, representing 94.9% of the projected area. The average yield reached 23.2 centners per hectare.
A total of 89.9 thousand metric tons of millet were harvested, compared to 61.5 thousand metric tons according to preliminary data as of October 31, 2025.
Thus, millet production exceeds last year’s figure by 28.4 thousand metric tons.
Buckwheat and millet are among the main cereal crops used for food production in Ukraine’s domestic market.
Buckwheat serves as the raw material for buckwheat groats, while millet is used primarily for the production of millet groats, as well as in the feed industry.
The decline in the buckwheat harvest may affect the supply balance for grain processing enterprises; however, the actual market situation will also depend on carryover stocks, imports, and consumer demand.
At the same time, the increase in millet production creates the conditions for a rise in its supply on the domestic market.
According to the ministry, the harvest campaign for both crops is nearing completion, so further changes in the gross harvest are expected to be relatively minor.
Source: Ministry of Agrarian Policy, press release dated November 3, 2026.
The Government of Ukraine has canceled the ban (in the form of zero quotas) imposed on March 5 this year on the export of sugar and millet.
According to the Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 549 dated May 7, sugar and millet are now included in the list of goods whose export is subject to licensing.
Earlier, the All-Ukrainian Agrarian Rada (VAR) proposed to the government to allow the export of millet, setting its quota of 80 thousand tons, since there is an excess of this crop in the country.
VAR referred to the data of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy for February 2022, according to which in Ukraine in the 2021/2022 marketing year (MY, July-June) 182 thousand tons of millet were produced, the carryover balance from 2020/2021 MY amounted to 18 thousand tons, while the average domestic consumption of millet in the country does not exceed 80 thousand tons, and export expectations for MY 2021-2022 – 80 thousand tons.
In addition, as of April 21, 2022, 4.8 thousand hectares of millet have already been sown in Ukraine, which is significantly more than on the corresponding date in 2021 – 0.9 thousand hectares.
This is the second such decision to lift the export ban. Previously, on April 10, it was replaced by licensing for live bovine animals (UKTVED code 0102), frozen bovine meat (code 0202) and meat and edible meat offal, salted or in brine, dried or smoked; edible flour from meat or meat by-products: cattle meat (code 021020).
Thus, rye, oats, buckwheat and salt suitable for human consumption, fertilizers (except nitrogen, for which the quota was increased to 210 thousand tons per quarter) remained on the list of zero export quotas.
