KYIV. Aug 20 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry of Ukraine has said that the harvesting of early grain crops from 10.1 million hectares has been finished and 36.7 million tonnes of grain has been threshed with an average yield of 36.2 centners per hectare.
“This year farmers threshed more than last year – 2 million tonnes more [of early grain crops]. This year 36.7 million tonnes of grain was threshed from 10.1 million hectares with a yield of 36.2 centners per hectare,” Minister Oleksiy Pavlenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday.
He said that farmers from Odesa (3 million tonnes), Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv (2.8 million tonnes each) and Zaporizhia (2.6 million tonnes) regions saw the best results.
Pavlenko said that 26.8 million tonnes of wheat was harvested from 6.8 million hectares with a yield of 39.4 centners per hectare, 8.5 million tonnes of barley was harvested from 2.8 million hectares with a yield of 30.5 centners per hectare, 365,000 tonnes of rye was harvested from 144,000 hectares and 248,000 tonnes of oats was harvested from 203,000 hectares.
A total of 392,000 tonnes of peas were harvested from 169,000 hectares with a yield of 23.2 centners per hectare, 1.7 million tonnes of rapeseeds was harvested from 674,000 hectares with yield of 25.7 centners per hectare.
Harvesting of buckwheat, millet and soybeans is underway, the ministry said.
