The area sown with winter grains for the harvest of 2020 amounted to 7.6 million hectares, which is 0.2% more than the area for the harvest of this year, the State Statistics Service has reported.
According to the agency, the following crops were sown: winter wheat on 6.4 million ha (0.6% less than in 2019), winter barley one 1 million ha (3.9% more), and rye one 135,000 ha (16.7% more).
In addition, the area under winter rapeseeds for the next year’s crop amounted to 1.3 million hectares (0.3% more from 2019).
As reported, with reference to the information-analytical portal of the agro-industrial complex of Ukraine, as of December 10 Ukraine had threshed 75.2 million tonnes of grain and leguminous crops from an area of 15.2 million hectares with the average yield being 4.95 tonnes/ha, exceeding the result of grain harvest for the whole of 2018, when the gross harvest amounted to 70.1 million tonnes.
