For the first time, Ukraine welcomes the new year with 22% of the corn area unthreshed

As of the end of December, Ukrainian farmers harvested 48.8 million tons of grain and leguminous crops from 10.6 million hectares or 92% of the area with an average yield of 4.61 tons/ha.

In particular, on the specified date:

• 20.2 million tons of wheat from 5 million hectares or 100% of the area with a yield of 4.05 tons/ha;
• 5.8 million tons of barley from 1.7 million hectares or 100% of the area with a yield of 3.47 tons/ha;
• 269 thousand tons of peas from 118 thousand hectares or 100% of the area with a yield of 2.28 tons/ha;
• 21.4 million tons of corn from 3.3 million hectares or 78% of the area with a yield of 6.46 tons/ha;
• 158.5 thousand tons of buckwheat from 116 thousand hectares or 98% of the area with a yield of 1.37 tons/ha;
• 101.8 thousand tons of millet from 44.7 thousand hectares or 99% of the area with a yield of 2.28 tons/ha.

In addition, at the end of December, the following was also collected:

• sunflower - 10.5 million tons from 4.8 million hectares or 99% of the area with a yield of 2.17 tons/ha;
• soybeans – 3.7 million tons from 1.5 million hectares or 99% of the area with a yield of 2.43 tons/ha;
• rapeseed – 3.2 million tons from 1.1 million hectares or 100% of the area with a yield of 2.86 tons/ha;
• sugar beet – 9 million tons from 180,000 ha or 99% of the area with a yield of 50.1 t/ha.

Agrarians of Odesa, Mykolaiv Oblast and Bukovyna collected the entire harvest of agricultural crops, and the highest yield of grain and leguminous crops - 7.04 t/ha - was obtained in Khmelnytskyi Oblast.

For the first time in the history of Ukraine, 930,000 hectares or 22% of the corn area remained unthreshed, but we hope that dry and warm weather in January will allow harvesting to be completed and farmers' harvests and profits to be preserved.