By KYIV. Nov 4 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukrainian farmers by November 4 harvested 53.11 million tonnes of main crops from a total area of 15.13 million hectares, while for the period October 28 – November 4, they collected 4.3 million tonnes from 2 million hectares, according to the website Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food.
The report states that in a week the total area of farmland from which the crop was harvested increased by 2% – up to 72% of the previously planned area.
In terms of crops, the harvesting of wheat, barley, peas and rapeseed has been completed. Millet was harvested from 95% of the area (no change for the week), buckwheat – from 95% (more by 2 percentage points), sunflower – from 87% (more by 7 p.p.), soybeans – from 85% (more by 13 p.p.), sugar beets – from 73% (more by 14 p.p.), corn – from 27% (more by 7 p.p.)
According to the ministry, the final harvest of wheat this season amounted to 19.2 million tonnes from 4.7 million hectares, barley – 5.5 million tonnes from 1.6 million hectares, rapeseed – 3.1 million tonnes from 1.96 million hectares, peas – 261,000 tonnes from 111,500 hectares.
In addition, by November 4, a total of 9 million tonnes of sunflower (more by 800,000 tonnes per week) were harvested from 4.1 million hectares (more by 400,000 hectares), 6.4 million tonnes of sugar beets (more by 1.2 million tonnes) from 105,000 hectares (more by 26,400 hectares), 6.3 million tonnes of corn (more by 1.8 million tonnes) from 1.1 million hectares (more by 268,000d hectares), 3.1 million tonnes soybeans (more by 500,000 tonnes) from 1.3 million hectares (more by 200,000 hectares), 151,000 tonnes of buckwheat (more by 2,000 tonnes) from 111,000 hectares (more by 2,000 hectares), as well as 98,000 tonnes of millet (more by 500,000 tonnes) from 42,600 hectares (more by 600,000 hectares).
According to the ministry, the average yield for all crops in the current season was 40.7 centners per hectare, including corn – 55.4 centners per hectare, wheat – 41.2 centners per hectare, barley – 35.1 centners per hectare, rapeseeds – 28.9 centners/ha, soybeans – 23.9 centners/ha, peas – 23.4 centners/ha, millet – 23.1 centners/ha, sunflower – 22 centners/ha, buckwheat – 13.6 centners/ha, and sugar beets – 488 centners/ha.
