Kernel harvests 13% lower yield of sunflower
This production season, sunflower yield in the fields of the company Kernel decreased by 13% compared with the financial year 2020(July 2019–June 2020).
As provided by the company's report, sunflower is harvested using the average yield of 3 t/ha, whereas last season the crop yielded 3.5 t/ha.
"Crop yields in the company’s farming segment are expected to decline for all three major crops: corn, sunflower, and wheat. Dry spring weather undermined crop yield potential for wheat, and lack of rains during summer negatively impacted corn and sunflower yields," the report reads.
As of October 25, Kernel harvested 43.7% of corn areas, 98% of sunflower and 100% of wheat. In FY2020, the company's cropping plan included:
- corn: 254.8 thou. ha, ▲10% more YoY (FY2019(July 2018–June 2019): 231.4), the average yield stood ▼12% lower at 7.5 t/ha
- sunflower: 148.2 thou. ha, ▲9% more YoY (FY2019: 136.5), the average yield stood ▼13% lower at 3 t/ha
- wheat: 72.3 thou. ha, ▼26% lower YoY (FY2019: 97.1 thou. ha), the average yield stood ▼17% lower at 4.9 t/ha
- other(Includes rapeseed, soybean, barley, rye, oats, forage crops and other minor crops, as well as fallow land.): 23.1 thou. ha, ▼2x lower YoY (FY2019: 47.6)
Follow the updates with the Harvest Online 2020 project. The project is developed in partnership with Soufflet Agro Ukraine.
As of October 22, agriproducers in Ukraine harvested 64.8 mln t of main crops on 20.6 mln ha, of which grains and legumes total 48.8 mln t harvested on 12.7 mln ha, making up 83% of the planned areas. Sunflower average yield in Ukraine made up 1.97 t/ha.