By KYIV. Dec 30 (Interfax-Ukraine) – By December 30, Ukrainian agrarians harvested 74.33 million tonnes of major agricultural crops from a total area of 17.86 million hectares; over the past week, 1.2 million tonnes of corn were harvested from 0.2 million hectares, the harvesting of which was previously stopped due to due to adverse weather conditions.
As reported on the website of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food on Friday, during the week the total area of farmland from which the harvest increased by 2 percentage points (p.p.), to 92% of the previously planned area.
In terms of crops, the harvesting of wheat, barley, peas, rapeseed and sugar beets has been completed. During the week, the harvested area of corn increased by 3 pp, to 78% of the planned figures, while the harvested areas of buckwheat (98%), as well as sunflower and soybeans (99% each) did not change.
According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, the final harvest of wheat this season amounted to 20.2 million tonnes from 5 million hectares, barley – 5.8 million tonnes from 1.7 million hectares, rapeseed – 3.2 million tonnes from 1.1 million hectares, peas – 269,000 tonnes from 118,000 hectares, sugar beet – 9 million tonnes from 180,000 hectares.
In addition, by December 30, a total of 21.4 million tonnes of corn (1.2 million tonnes more in one week) were harvested from 3.3 million hectares (0.1 million hectares more), 10.5 million tonnes of sunflower from 4.8 million hectares, 3.7 million tonnes of soybeans from 1.5 million hectares, 158,000 tonnes of buckwheat from 116,000 hectares, and 102,000 tonnes of millet from 44,700 hectares.
According to the ministry, the average yield for all crops in the current season was 4.61 tonnes per hectare, including corn – 6.46 tonnes per hectare, wheat – 4.05 tonnes per hectare, barley – 3.47 tonnes per hectare, rape – 2.86 tonnes per ha, soybeans – 2.43 tonnes per ha, peas – 2.28 tonnes per ha, millet – 2.28 tonnes per ha, sunflower – 2.17 tonnes per ha, buckwheat – 1.37 tonnes per ha, sugar beet – 50.1 tonnes per ha.
The agrarians of Mykolaiv, Odesa and Chernivtsi regions have completed the harvest of all crops. Most grain and leguminous crops were harvested in Vinnytsia region – 4 million tonnes, and their highest yield was recorded in Khmelnytsky region – 7.04 tonnes per hectare.
