KYIV. Sept 29 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Vegetable production in 2015 will tentatively reach 8.7 million tonnes, Agricultural Policy and Food Minister of Ukraine Oleksiy Pavlenko wrote on his Twitter page on Monday.
“Tentatively, 8.7 million tonnes of vegetables will be received with consumption of 6.7 million tonnes (160.2 kilograms per person),” he said.
Pavlenko added that the most of the vegetables will be used by households – around 7.4 million tonnes.
As reported, referring to the State Statistics Service, vegetables were sown on 1.814 million hectares in 2015, which is 4.5% down on 2014.
Potato harvest in 2014 totaled 23.7 million tonnes, which was 8.4% up on 2013. A total of 9.64 million tonnes of vegetable was harvested, 2.6% up year-over-year.
