18.07.2022

Farmers have started harvesting winter rapeseed

According to Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine harvesting of early grain and leguminous crops was carried out on an area of ​​1.2 million ha (10%) with a yield of 29.3 c/ha, 3.6 million tons of new crop grain were threshed, including:

– 588.3 thousand hectares of wheat were threshed, with a yield of 28.8 c/ha, 1.7 million tons were threshed;

– 589.6 thousand hectares of barley were threshed with a yield of 30.9 c/ha, 1.8 million tons were threshed;

– 42.1 thousand hectares of peas were threshed, with a yield of 18.4 c/ha, 77.3 thousand tons were threshed.

In general, the leaders in threshing are the agricultural producers of Odesa, who harvested 39% of the area (404 thousand ha) of grain and leguminous crops, threshed 982.8 thousand tons of grain, Dnipropetrovsk region – threshed 24% of the area (252 thousand ha), having collected 709.5 thousand tons of grain. Agricultural farms of the Mykolaiv region harvested 37% of the area (247 thousand hectares) and threshed 679.2 thousand tons of grain.

In addition, farmers of 15 regions began harvesting winter rapeseed, which was threshed on an area of ​​133.7 thousand hectares, (11%) 259.2 thousand tons of seeds were threshed with a yield of 19.4 c/ha.