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UKRAINE HARVESTS 5.5 MLN TONNES OF NEW GRAIN

18 July , 2021  

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.

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