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.

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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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