By November 4, Ukrainian farmers harvested 53.11 million tons of main agricultural crops from a total area of 15.13 million hectares, while for the period October 28 – November 4, they collected 4.3 million tons from 2 million hectares, according to the website of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and food on Friday.
The report states that in a week the total area of farmland from which the crop was harvested increased by 2% – up to 72% of the previously planned area.
In terms of crops, the harvesting of wheat, barley, peas and rapeseed has been completed. Millet harvested from 95% (no change for the week), buckwheat – from 95% (+2 percentage points), sunflower – from 87% (+7 p.p.), soybeans – from 85% (+13 p.p. ), sugar beet – from 73% (+14 p.p.), corn – from 27% (+7 p.p.)
According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, the final harvest of wheat this season amounted to 19.2 million tons from 4.7 million hectares, barley – 5.5 million tons from 1.6 million hectares, rapeseed – 3.1 million tons from 1.96 million hectares. , peas – 261 thousand tons from 111.5 thousand hectares.
In addition, by November 4, a total of 9 million tons of sunflower (+0.8 million tons per week) were harvested from 4.1 million hectares (+0.4 million hectares), 6.4 million tons of sugar beet (+1.2 million tons) from 105 thousand hectares (+26.4 thousand hectares), 6.3 million tons of corn (+1.8 million tons) from 1.1 million hectares (+268 thousand hectares), 3.1 million tons soybeans (+0.5 million tons) from 1.3 million hectares (+0.2 million hectares), 151 thousand tons of buckwheat (+2 thousand tons) from 111 thousand hectares (+2 thousand hectares), as well as 98 thousand tons of millet (+0.5 thousand tons) from 42.6 thousand hectares (+0.6 thousand hectares).
According to the ministry, the average yield for all crops in the current season was 40.7 centners per hectare, including corn – 55.4 centners per hectare, wheat – 41.2 centners per hectare, barley – 35.1 centners per hectare, rape – 28.9 c/ha, soybeans – 23.9 c/ha, peas – 23.4 c/ha, millet – 23.1 c/ha, sunflower – 22.0 c/ha, buckwheat – 13.6 centner/ha, sugar beet – 488 centner/ha.
As reported, in 2021 Ukraine harvested a record harvest of grains, legumes and oilseeds in the amount of 106 million tons: grains and legumes – UAH 84 million, oilseeds – 22.6 million tons.
In general, 32.4 million tons of wheat, 40 million tons of corn, 10 million tons of barley, 581.5 thousand tons of peas, 191 thousand tons of millet, 110 thousand tons of buckwheat were harvested last year. Sunflower harvest amounted to 16.3 million tons, soybeans – 3.4 million tons, rapeseed – 2.9 million tons.
