As of September 22, Ukrainian farmers had threshed 7 million hectares, or 61% of the projected area, according to the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food.
The gross harvest of grains and legumes totaled 32.95 million metric tons, with an average yield of 47 ts/ha.
Wheat harvests totaled 25.31 million metric tons from 5.11 million hectares at an average yield of 49.5 centners per hectare, while barley harvests totaled 6.39 million metric tons from 1.48 million hectares at a yield of 43.3 centners per hectare. The harvest of these crops is complete.
Peas were harvested at 812,200 metric tons from an area of 301,900 hectares, with an average yield of 26.9 centners per hectare; millet—62,200 metric tons from 26,900 hectares, with a yield of 23.2 centners per hectare; buckwheat—37,100 metric tons from 26,600 hectares at a yield of 13.9 centners per hectare, and corn—339,800 metric tons from 67,900 hectares at a yield of 50 centners per hectare.
Farmers in the southern and central regions harvested the largest volumes of grain. In the Odesa region, 4.83 million metric tons of grain were harvested from an area of 1.19 million hectares; in the Dnipropetrovsk region, 2.72 million metric tons from 663,300 hectares; and in the Kirovohrad region, 2.43 million metric tons from 561,000 hectares.
The highest average grain yields were recorded in farms in the Khmelnytskyi region (70.6 centners per hectare), the Sumy region (60.6 centners per hectare), and the Kyiv region (55.8 centners per hectare).
More than 6 million metric tons of oilseeds were harvested from approximately 2.4 million hectares. In particular, the rapeseed harvest has been completed, with 3.857 million metric tons harvested from 1.33 million hectares at a yield of 29 centners per hectare.
Sunflower seeds totaled 1.5 million metric tons from 756,200 hectares—or 14% of the projected area—at a yield of 19.8 centners per hectare.
Soybeans totaled 655,400 metric tons from 327,600 hectares—or 21% of the projected area—at a yield of 20 centners per hectare.
Farmers have also begun harvesting sugar beets. 19.3 thousand metric tons have been harvested from an area of 0.45 thousand hectares, with an average yield of 428.9 centners per hectare.
