Crop progress in Ukraine: corn 66% harvested in Ukraine, average yield reaches 6.19 t/ha
12 December 2022, 14:28
As of December 8, grain and leguminous crops in Ukraine yielded 43.6 mln t on 9.7 mln ha, which is 87% of the planned area (2021: 98%, 24.48 mln ha), the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food reports. The average yield of crops as of the reporting date was 4.51 t/ha (2021: 5.36 t/ha).
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 43.2 thou. ha (97%), avg. yield 2.3 t/ha
- buckwheat: 157 thou. t on 115 thou. ha (98%), avg. yield 1.37 t/ha
- sunflower: 10 mln t on 4.6 mln ha (98%), avg. yield 2.18 t/ha
- corn: 17.2 mln t on 2.8 mln ha (66%), avg. yield 6.19 t/ha
- soybean: 3.7 mln t on 1.5 mln ha (98%), avg. yield 2.42 t/ha
- sugar beet: 8.9 mln t on 176.7 thou. ha (98%), avg. yield 50.2 t/ha
USDA projects wheat output in Ukraine in 2022/23 at 20.5 mln t, corn at 27 mln t, and sunflower at 10.1 mln t.
