Ukraine since the beginning of this season and as of Oct. 28 threshed 60.75 million tonnes of main grain and leguminous crops from a total area of 12.86 million hectares (a rise of 4.37 million tonnes in a week from Oct. 21 to Oct. 28), the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food reported on its website on Oct. 29.
According to the report, the Kharkiv region with 4.61 million tonnes, as well as Odesa (4.58 million tonnes), Dnipropetrovsk (4.53 million tonnes), Mykolaiv (3.78 million tonnes), Vinnytsia (3.77 million tonnes) and Kherson (3.44 million) regions are leaders in threshing.
In total, 80.19 million tonnes of major grains, legumes, oilseeds (and sugar beets were dug out) from a total area of 20.89 million hectares have been harvested this season (a rise of 5.7 million tonnes in a week).
As the Ministry of Agrarian Policy said, as of the indicated date, 15.62 million tonnes of corn (a rise of 4.47 million tonnes) were harvested from 2.43 million hectares (44% of the forecast) and 13.56 million tonnes of sunflower (a rise of 0.88 million tonnes) from 5.87 million hectares (90% of the forecast).
In addition, farmers harvested 7.76 million tonnes (a rise of 1.53 million tonnes) of sugar beet from 164,630 hectares (73% of the forecast).
The ministry said that a total of 107,500 tonnes (a rise of 1,000 tonnes) of buckwheat was harvested from 81,600 hectares (98% of the forecast), and 178,800 tonnes of millet from 76,300 hectares (98%).
In addition, 3.05 million tonnes of soybeans (a rise of 450,000 tonnes) were harvested from 1.15 million hectares (90% of the forecast).
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy also recalled the completion of work on harvesting rapeseed, which harvested 2.91 million tonnes from an area of 1.01 million hectares.
The average yield of corn as of Oct. 28 was 6.436 tonnes per ha, sunflower – 2.312 tonnes per ha, soybeans – 2.647 tonnes per ha, rapeseed – 2.86 tonnes per ha, sugar beet – 47.113 tonnes per ha, buckwheat – 1.38 tonnes per ha, millet – 2.344 tonnes per ha.
