65 mln tons of new crop harvested in Ukraine
15 November 2018, 11:00
As of November 14, 2018, the Ukrainian agrarians harvested 65.3 million tons of grain on the area of 14.2 million hectares (96%) with the productivity of 4.61 tons/ha (2017: 4.15 tons/ha).
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine reports the following yields:
- corn — 30.2 million tons on 4 million hectares (87%) with a productivity of 7.55 tons/ha (2017: 5.15 tons/ha);
- buckwheat — 135 thou. tons on 107 thou. hectares (99%) with a productivity of 1.26 tons/ha (2017: 1.09 tons/ha);
- millet — 78 thou. tons on 51 thou. hectares (98%) with a productivity of 1.54 tons/ha (2017: 1.46 tons/ha).
Harvesting of industrial crops has reached the following results:
- sunflower — 13.7 million tons on 6 million hectares (99%) with a productivity of 2.27 tons/ha (2017: 2.01 tons/ha);
- soybean — 4.3 million tons on 1.7 million hectares (98%) with a productivity of 2.57 tons/ha (2017: 1.92 tons/ha);
- sugar beet — 12.8 million tons on 260 thou. hectares (93%) with a productivity of 49.3 tons/ha (2017: 45 tons/ha). 10.9 million tons are delivered to processing facilities.