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.
