Over 23 million tonnes of new harvest grain already collected in Ukraine
ANASTASIIA ZHARYKOVA – FRIDAY, 19 AUGUST 2022, 18:54
Ukrainian farmers have reaped 23.4 million tonnes of early grain of the new harvest. The grain was collected from 55% of the total seeded area, that is, 6.1 million hectares.
The press-service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine reports about this.
Agrarians have already threshed:
- 17.4 million tonnes of wheat;
- 5.3 million tonnes of grain;
- 243.7 thousand tonnes of peas;
- 7.7 thousand tonnes of millet.
According to latest reports, by now, the farmers have collected 91% of wheat, 96% of barley, 97% of peas, and 98% of rapeseed.
The leaders in terms of harvest collection are:
- Mykolaiv Oblast – 86%;
- Odesa Oblast – 85%;
- Volyn and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts – 70%;
- Kirovohrad Oblast – 60%.
The biggest grain and leguminous crop yield is reported in the Khmelnytskii Oblast – 62.0 quintals per hectare.
The agrarians of the Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad and Odesa regions threshed more than 2 million tonnes of grain; in the Vinnytsia, Volyn, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Poltava, Ternopil, Khmelnytskii and Cherkasy regions, they collected over 1 million tonnes of grain in each.
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