Crop progress in Ukraine: corn 78% harvested, sunflower campaign finalizes at 10.5 mln t

As of December 29, grain and leguminous crops in Ukraine yielded 48.8 mln t on 10.6 mln ha, which is 92% 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 4.61 t/ha (2021: 5.36 t/ha).

Production by crops:

• wheat: 20.2 mln t on 5 mln ha (100%), avg. yield 4.05 t/ha
• barley: 5.8 mln t on 1.7 mln ha (100%), avg. yield 3.47 t/ha
• rapeseed: 3.2 mln t on 1.1 mln ha (100%), avg. yield 2.86 t/ha
• peas: 269 thou. t on 118 thou. ha (100%), avg. yield 2.28 t/ha
• millet: 101.8 thou. t on 44.7 thou. ha (99%), avg. yield 2.28 t/ha
• buckwheat: 158.5 thou. t on 116 thou. ha (98%), avg. yield 1.37 t/ha
• sunflower: 10.5 mln t on 4.8 mln ha (99%), avg. yield 2.17 t/ha
• corn: 21.4 mln t on 3.3 mln ha (78%), avg. yield 6.46 t/ha
• soybean: 3.7 mln t on 1.5 mln ha (99%), avg. yield 2.43 t/ha
• sugar beet: 9 mln t on 180 thou. ha (99%), avg. yield 50.1 t/ha

The highest yield of grains and legumes was produced in Khmelnysky region — 7.04 t/ha. Producers in Vinnytsya region harvested 4 mln t of new crop.

Farms in Mykolaiv, Odesa and Cherkasy regions have completed the new crop campaign. Volyn, Zakarpattya and Ivano-Frankivsk regions are about to finalize collecting grains and oilseeds.

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.