More than 69 mln tons of grain harvested in Ukraine
5 December 2018, 14:02
As of December 4, 2018, the Ukrainian agrarians harvested 69.3 million tons of grain and leguminous crops on the area of 14.6 million hectares (99%) with the productivity of 4.74 tons/ha.
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine reports the following yields:
- early grains and legumes — 34.3 million tons on 9.9 million hectares with a productivity of 3.48 tons/ha;
- corn — 34.1 million tons on 4.4 million hectares (97%) with a productivity of 7.7 tons/ha;
- buckwheat — 136 thou. tons on 108 thou. hectares (99%) with a productivity of 1.26 tons/ha;
- millet — 78 thou. tons on 51 thou. hectares (98%) with a productivity of 1.54 tons/ha.
Harvesting of industrial crops has reached the following results:
- sunflower — 13.8 million tons on 6 million hectares (99.8%) with a productivity of 2.28 tons/ha;
- soybean — 4.4 million tons on 1.7 million hectares (99%) with a productivity of 2.58 tons/ha;
- rapeseed — 2.7 million tons on 1 million hectares with a productivity of 2.61 tons/ha;
- sugar beet — 13.5 million tons on 274 thou. hectares (98%) with a productivity of 49.4 tons/ha.
Previously it was reported that Ukraine would harvest the lowest yield of oilseed flax in 2018/19 — 39.5 thou. tons.