Agrarians in all regions of Ukraine harvested 74 million tons of grains and oilseeds – 53.780 million tons and 20.239 million tons, respectively.
According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, grain and leguminous crops were harvested on an area of 10104 thousand hectares with a yield of 53.2 c/ha.
It is also specified that by now, Ukraine has completed harvesting and threshing of barley from 1505 thousand hectares (101% of the plan), which yielded 5.890 million tons; wheat – 22.409 million tons from 4695 thousand hectares (101%); peas – 398.2 thousand tons from 154.4 thousand hectares (103%), as well as rapeseed – 4.005 million tons of seeds from 1396 thousand hectares (98%).
The harvest of millet is nearing completion, with 178.9 thou tons harvested from 79 thou hectares (95%), and buckwheat – 206.57 thou tons from 139.2 thou hectares (99%). At the same time, corn was harvested in the amount of 21.218 mln tons from 2932.3 thou hectares (79%).
In addition, other grains and pulses were harvested in the amount of 991 thou tons from 337.4 thou hectares.
Ukraine continues harvesting oilseeds, which have been harvested from a total area of 8139 thou hectares. In particular, sunflower was harvested in the amount of 11.586 mln tons (11.520 mln tons a week earlier) from the area of 4.947 mln hectares (98%), soybeans – 4.750 mln tons (4.713 mln tons) from 1.793 mln hectares (99%).
Sugar beet was harvested from 227.1 thou hectares (211.3 thou hectares a week earlier), which is 91% of the planned area. The harvest amounted to 10.816 million tons.
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy also monitors information on crop yields, which amounted to 47.7 c/ha for wheat, 39.2 c/ha for barley, 25.8 c/ha for peas, 22.6 c/ha for millet, and 14.8 c/ha for buckwheat. The yield of corn is 74.2 c/ha, rapeseed – 28.7 c/ha, soybeans – 26.4 c/ha, sunflower – 23.4 c/ha. The yield of sugar beet is 476.2 c/ha.
According to the Ministry, farmers in Zaporizhzhia and Mykolaiv regions have completed harvesting all crops.
As reported, this season’s winter wheat plantings amounted to 4166 thousand hectares (-834 thousand hectares compared to the previous season), winter barley – 536 thousand hectares (-255 thousand hectares), and rapeseed – 1374 thousand hectares (+110 thousand hectares).
According to the adjusted forecast of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, in 2023, farmers will be able to harvest 79.1 mln tons of grains and oilseeds, including the following volumes: wheat – 21.7 mln tons, barley – 5.7 mln tons and corn – 28.5 mln tons. Gross production of oilseeds will reach 21.6 million tons, including 13 million tons of sunflower, 4 million tons of rapeseed, and 4.6 million tons of soybeans. The sugar beet harvest is forecast at 13.7 million tons.
