Agrarians of Odesa, Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions have started harvesting early grain and leguminous crops. This was reported by the Ministry of Agricultural Policy.
Harvesting was carried out on an area of 131.5 thousand hectares (1%) with a yield of 22.3 t/ha, 293.8 thousand tons of new crop grain were threshed, including:
– 106 thousand ha of winter barley were threshed with a yield of 23.5 tons/ha, 248.4 thousand tons were threshed;
– 21.8 thousand hectares of winter wheat were threshed, with a yield of 18.1 tons/ha, 39.4 thousand tons were threshed;
– 3.8 thousand hectares of peas were threshed, with a yield of 5.2 tons/ha, 1.95 thousand tons were threshed.
In addition, agricultural producers of Odesa region have started harvesting winter rapeseed, which has been threshed on an area of 1,000 hectares, and 1,400 tons of seeds have been threshed.