17 August 2020, 17:04, Grain

Barley harvesting 99% completed in Ukraine

As of August 13, barley production in Ukraine stood at 8.62 mln t. The crop was harvested on 2.35 mln ha or 99% of the planned 2.38 mln ha.

Barley yields 3.67 t/ha on average, the Harvest Online 2020 project data show.

Ten regions of the country demonstrated the lowest yields in the new harvest barley campaign:

Region Harvested areas (thou. ha) Crop (thou. t) Avg. yield (t/ha)
Odesa 290.6 531.8 1.83
Mykolaiv 301.3 917.07 3.04
Kherson 198.8 636.67 3.2
Zakarpattya 2.3 7.89 3.43
Zaporizhzhya 196.7 674.68 3.43
Dnipropetrovsk 239.7 838.58 3.5
Luhansk 44.2 155.19 3.51
Donetsk 113.6 425.82 3.75
Kyiv 66.09 254.42 3.85
Zhytomyr 29.85 122.75 4.11

The project is developed in partnership with Soufflet Agro Ukraine. Follow the updates with the Harvest Online 2020 project.

Previously reported that as of August 14, 95% of early grains (wheat, barley, rye, triticale, oats and peas) were harvested in Rivne region.