Crop progress in Ukraine: grains harvesting makes 41.9 mln t

As of December 1, grain and leguminous crops in Ukraine yielded 41.9 mln t on 9.4 mln ha, which is 85% of the planned area (2021: 95%, 15.2 mln ha), the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food reports. The average yield of crops as of the reporting date was 4.44 t/ha (2021: 5.25 t/ha).

Producers in Mykolaiv and Odesa regions are the first to finish the campaign. Producers in Vinnytsya, Volyn, Zhytomyr, Ternopil and Chernihiv regions completed sugar beet harvesting.

Production by crops:

• wheat: 19.4 mln t on 4.7 mln ha (100%), avg. yield 4.12 t/ha
• barley: 5.6 mln t on 1.6 mln ha (100%), avg. yield 3.51 t/ha
• rapeseed: 3.2 mln t on 1.1 mln ha (100%), avg. yield 2.89 t/ha
• peas: 261 thou. t on 111.5 thou. ha (100%), avg. yield 2.34 t/ha
• millet: 99.5 thou. t on 42.9 thou. ha (96%), avg. yield 2.32 t/ha
• buckwheat: 157 thou. t on 115 thou. ha (98%), avg. yield 1.36 t/ha
• sunflower: 9.9 mln t on 4.6 mln ha (97%), avg. yield 2.17 t/ha
• corn: 15.5 mln t on 2.5 mln ha (60%), avg. yield 6.13 t/ha
• soybean: 3.6 mln t on 1.5 mln ha (98%), avg. yield 2.42 t/ha
• sugar beet: 8.6 mln t on 173.5 thou. ha (97%), avg. yield 49.8 t/ha

The highest yield of grains and legumes was produced in Khmelnysky region — 6.74 t/ha.

Agriproducers in Vinnytsya region harvested the highest bulk yield of grains — 3.7 mln t. Kirovohrad region's new crop production reached 3.4 mln t, Dnipropetrovsk region's — around 3 mln t.

USDA projects wheat output in Ukraine in 2022/23 at 20.5 mln t, corn at 31.5 mln t, and sunflower at 10.5 mln t.

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