In Ukraine, soybeans and sunflowers have been harvested on 2/3 of the area

According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, as of October 12, 37.144 million tons of grain and legume crops were harvested from 7.567 million hectares or 65.2% of the planned area in Ukraine, with an average yield of 4.91 tons/ha. For comparison, last year, on October 9, 33.032 million tons of grain and legume crops were harvested from 7.674 million hectares or 67% of the area, with an average yield of 4.3 tons/ha.

 

In terms of crops, the following have been threshed so far:

• corn – 3.486 million tons from 589.4 thousand hectares (13% of the area) with a yield of 5.91 tons/hectare,
• buckwheat – 55.6 thousand tons from 44.3 thousand hectares (91%) with a yield of 1.26 tons/hectare,
• millet – 81.3 thousand tons from 35.8 thousand hectares (88%) with a yield of 2.27 tons/hectare.

 

Also, on the specified date, the following amount of oilseeds was harvested:

• sunflower – 7.439 million tons from 3.439 million hectares (66% of the area) with a yield of 2.16 tons/hectare,
• soybeans – 2.56 million tons from 1.169 million hectares (73%) with a yield of 2.19 tons/hectare.

 

In addition, 1.581 million tons of sugar beets were harvested from 31.6 thousand hectares or 19% of the planned area, with an average yield of 49.98 tons/hectare.