As of July 14, Ukrainian farmers have begun harvesting early grain and legume crops in all regions of the country and have harvested 3.1 million metric tons of grain from the new harvest across 763,000 hectares, or 6% of the projected area, according to the press service of the Ministry of Economy, Environment, and Agriculture.
According to the report, barley currently accounts for the largest gross harvest—1.84 million metric tons from 417,700 hectares, with an average yield of 44.1 centners per hectare.
Wheat yields totaled 1.11 million metric tons from 280,700 hectares at a yield of 39.6 centners per hectare, while peas yielded 156,400 metric tons from 64,600 hectares at a yield of 24.2 centners per hectare.
The Odesa region leads in harvest pace, having harvested 1.001 million metric tons of grain from 238 thousand hectares. The Mykolaiv region has harvested 805.1 thousand metric tons from 227.3 thousand hectares, and the Dnipropetrovsk region has harvested 567.3 thousand metric tons from 148.2 thousand hectares.
In addition, farmers have begun harvesting winter and spring rapeseed. To date, 77,000 hectares have been threshed, yielding 149,100 metric tons with an average yield of 19.4 centners per hectare.
As previously reported, a total of approximately 11.3 million hectares were sown with winter and spring grains and legumes in Ukraine this year, while total plantings of oilseeds exceeded 20 million hectares.
