Poltava, Vinnitsa and Odessa farmers have completed harvesting early grain crops.
Ukrainian farmers harvested 27.3 million tons of new crop grain. In the regions of Poltava, Vinnitsa and Odessa, the collection of early grains has been completed. This was announced on August 18 by the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food.
In the second half of August, the harvest was harvested in an area of 6,185.1 thousand hectares with a yield of 44.1 centners per hectare, 27.26 million tons of early grain crops were harvested.
Specifically, wheat was threshed on 4,384 thousand hectares (yield – 47.5 q/ha), 20.82 million tons were threshed.
5.57 million tons of barley were harvested (1,398 thousand hectares were threshed with a yield of 39.8 cents per hectare), peas – 379.1 thousand tons (152.2 thousand hectares were threshed with a yield of 24.9 cents per hectare).
Farmers also threshed 2.81 thousand tons of millet (2.32 thousand hectares were threshed with a yield of 12.1 q/ha). So far, buckwheat has been harvested on 0.08 thousand hectares (yield – 11.3 cents per hectare), 0.1 thousand tons have been harvested.
As for other grains and leguminous crops, they were harvested from 249 thousand hectares, threshing 492.1 thousand tons of grain.
The leaders in grain harvesting are the agricultural producers of Zaporozhye, they threshed 96% of the area. The largest threshing remains for the Odessa region – 3.2 million tons. In the regions of Dnepropetrovsk, Kherson, Ternopil and Odessa, millet collection began.
13 regions have finished harvesting rapeseed. Currently, they have been threshed in an area of 1,370.7 thousand hectares, 3,944.1 thousand tons of seeds have been threshed, with a yield of 28.8 q/ha.
Poltava, Vinnitsa and Odessa farmers have completed harvesting early grain crops.
Recall that earlier the Ministry of Agrarian Policy significantly improved the forecast for the harvest. Thus, Ukrainian farmers this year will be able to harvest up to 76.7 million tons of crops, and not 63.5 million tons, as previously planned.
Source: korrespondent
I’m Liza Grey, an experienced news writer and author at the Buna Times. I specialize in writing about economic issues, with a focus on uncovering stories that have a positive impact on society. With over seven years of experience in the news industry, I am highly knowledgeable about current events and the ways in which they affect our daily lives.