Some regions have completed harvesting early grain crops and have also begun threshing sunflower seeds.
Ukrainian farmers harvested 25.3 million tons of grain on August 25, according to data from the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food Report.
So, from 4.6 million hectares (98%), 18.8 million tons of wheat (40.8 q/ha) were harvested, barley – from 1.6 million hectares (99%) 5.5 million tons (harvest – 34 .6 q/ haha).
In addition, peas harvested from 108.8 thousand hectares (98%), 246.1 thousand tons were harvested (income – 22.6 cents per hectare), buckwheat – 1.6 thousand hectares (1%) – 2 thousand. tons (income – 13.2 c/ha), millet – 4.1 thousand hectares (9%) – 1 thousand tons (income – 21.9 c/ha).
In total, the harvest of grains and legumes was completed in an area of 6.6 million hectares (59%) with a yield of 38.4 c/ha.
The highest yield of cereals and legumes came from farmers in the Khmelnitsky region – 62.3 centners per hectare.
Sunflower harvesting has also begun – in an area of 23.5 thousand hectares (1%), 18.8 thousand tons of seeds were harvested with a yield of 8 cents per hectare.
Rapeseed in an area of 1 million 85 thousand hectares (99%) was harvested by 3.1 million tons with a yield of 28.4 q/ha.
Earlier, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy increased the forecast for the 2022 harvest from 60 million tons to 65-67 million tons compared to 106.5 million tons last year.
During the 2022 sowing campaign, 14.16 million hectares of land were sown during the war – this is 83.7% of the figures for the previous year (16.92 million hectares).
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Source: korrespondent
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