KYIV. Sept 9 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Grains and leguminous crops in Ukraine as of September 8 had been threshed on 10.4 million hectares, or 71% of the forecast, and the country had harvested 37.5 million tonnes of grains with the average yield being 35.9 centners per ha, the Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food has said.
According to the ministry, corn has been threshed on 43,000 hectares, its harvest amounted to 177,000 tonnes with the average yield being 40.9 centners per ha.
Buckwheat was threshed on 89,000 hectares, or 67% of the area, 107,000 tonnes have been harvested with the average yield being 12.1 centners per ha.
Millet was threshed on 90,000 hectares, or 84% of the area, 181,000 tonnes have been harvested with the average yield being 20.1 centners per ha.
Soybeans were threshed on 266,000 hectares, or 12% of the forecast, 461,000 tonnes have been harvested with the average yield being 17.3 centners per ha.
Sunflower was threshed on 648,000 hectares, or 13% of the forecast, 1.2 million tonnes have been harvested with the average yield being 19.2 centners per ha.
The largest grain harvest was recorded in Odesa (3.1 million tonnes), Kharkiv (2.9 million tonnes), Dnipropetrovsk (2.8 million tonnes), Zaporizhia (2.6 million tonnes), Mykolaiv (2.5 million tonnes), Kherson (2.4 million tonnes), and Vinnytsia regions (2.3 million tonnes).
