In 2024, the harvest of wheat is expected to be 21 million tons, barley – 5 million tons, corn – 28.5 million tons.
Ukrainian farmers have already threshed 39.06 million tons of new crops collected in an area of 10.9 million hectares. The press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food reported this on Friday, September 13.
“In total, 30.08 million tons of grain, 8.2 million tons of oilseeds and 741.5 thousand tons of sugar beets were collected,” the statement said.
In particular, 21.8 million tons of wheat were threshed from an area of 4.9 million hectares, barley – 5.5 million tons from an area of 1.4 million hectares, and peas – 461.6 thousand tons from an area of 212.2 thousand hectares . .
In addition, farmers threshed 110.4 thousand tons of millet from an area of 56.8 thousand hectares, buckwheat – 88.2 thousand tons from an area of 56.2 thousand hectares, rapeseed – 3.4 million tons from an area of 1 , 3 million hectares. They also threshed 2.97 million tons of sunflower seeds from an area of 1.5 million hectares and 1.8 million tons of soybean seeds from 909.5 thousand hectares.
Corn harvesting has begun, 1.1 million tons of seeds have been collected from an area of 255.3 thousand hectares.
The leaders remain agricultural producers of the Vinnytsia region, which threshed 2.1 million hectares. In terms of yield, farmers of the Khmelnitsky region lead with an indicator of 62.9 c/ha.
It was earlier reported that farmers are predicting lower yields due to a dry May. After some time, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy improved the forecast for the grain harvest. The forecast describes a grain harvest of about 56 million tons. Of these, wheat – 21 million tons.
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Source: korrespondent
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