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.
