Ukraine has already harvested more than 28.5 million tonnes of grains and oilseeds. This is reported by Komersant ukrainskyi
with reference to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food.
As of the beginning of August, 25.3 million tonnes of grains and more than 3.2 million tonnes of oilseeds have been harvested. In total, the new harvest has been threshed on an area of over 7,301.6 thousand hectares, yielding 28,528.1 thousand tonnes.
Agrarians in Poltava, Odesa, Kherson, Kirovograd and Cherkasy regions have completed harvesting early grains and pulses.
As of today, they have harvested
- wheat – threshed on an area of 4,465.8 thou hectares, harvested 19,440.7 thou tonnes
- barley – 1,294.1 thousand hectares have been threshed, with a harvest of 4,819.8 million tonnes
- peas – 205.7 thou hectares were harvested, with a yield of 451.6 thou tonnes.
- rapeseed – 1,195.5 thou hectares were harvested, with a harvest of 3,236.3 million tonnes.
Grain harvesting is led by farmers in Odesa region, where 1064.9 thou hectares were threshed. Khmelnytsky region is the leader in terms of yields, with 65 centners per hectare.
Farmers in Dnipropetrovs’k, Kharkiv and Kherson regions have started harvesting buckwheat and millet.
It is worth noting that due to the extreme heat that has gripped Eastern Europe, crops are drying out in Ukraine. This could lead to the loss of some grain,Tatyana Adamenko, head of the agricultural department at the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Centre, told Bloomberg.Denis Marchuk, deputy head of the All-Ukrainian Agrarian Council, told Kommersant Ukrainsky that abnormally high temperatures and lack of rain could have a negative impact on the yield of late crops, while early grain crops will not be affected.