Harvest of grain and leguminous crops in 2017 totaled 61.3 MT
2 February 2018, 09:45
In 2017, the harvest of grain and leguminous crops amounted to 61.3 million tons with the productivity of 4.23 tons/ha. The harvested area made up 14.5 million hectares.
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine informs about the yield by crops as follows:
- wheat — 26.1 million tons with the productivity of 4.11 tons/ha, harvested area — 6.36 million hectares;
- corn — 24.1 million tons with the productivity of 5.44 tons/ha, harvested area — 4.43 million hectares;
- barley — 8.3 million tons with the productivity of 3.31 tons/ha, harvested area — 2.49 million hectares;
- rye — 506.8 thousand tons with the productivity of 2.97 tons/ha, harvested area — 170.5 thousand hectares;
- oats — 471.1 thousand tons with the productivity of 2.39 tons/ha, harvested area — 197.6 thousand hectares;
- buckwheat — 180.4 thousand tons with the productivity of 0.98 tons/ha, harvested area — 184.8 thousand hectares.
The agrarians of Vinnytsia (4.8 million tons), Odessa (4.2 million tons), Poltava (4.2 million tons) and Chernihiv (4 million tons) regions harvested the highest yields.
Reference: Ukraine since the beginning of MY 2017/18, as of January 31, 2018, exported 23.95 million tons of grain, which is 2.46 million tons less than over the same period last year.