Ukraine has completed harvesting early grain and leguminous crops, threshing 37.3 million tonnes from an area of 9.6 million hectares (100% of the forecast).
According to a report on the website of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, farmers threshed 8.6 million tonnes of barley with the average yield being 34.3 centners per hectare, 471,000 tonnes of rye with the yield being 28.3 centners per hectare, and 2.1 million tonnes of rapeseeds with a yield of 27.6 centners/ha.
As of August 28 the country had threshed 26.6 million tonnes of wheat with the yield being 41.8 centners per hectare, 487,000 tonnes of oats with a yield of 25 centners per hectare, 1.1 million tonnes of peas with a yield of 26.7 centners per hectare, 41,000 tonnes of buckwheat with a yield of 10.8 centners per ha, and 29,000 tonnes of millet with a yield of 15.1 centners/ha.
In addition, 15 regions demonstrated the highest yield of grains and legumes for the entire period of Ukraine's independence. At the same time, the top five included Khmelnytsky (56.6 centners/ha), Ivano-Frankivsk (52.1), Vinnytsia (50), Ternopil (49.8), and Chernivtsi regions (48.8).
The largest harvest of grains was recorded in Odesa (3.8 million tonnes), Zaporizhia, Kharkiv (2.8 million tonnes each), Dnipropetrovsk (2.6 million tonnes), Vinnytsia (2.4 million tonnes), and Mykolaiv regions (2.3 million tonnes).
