A new harvest of winter barley is being harvested in the southern regions. This was reported by Ministry of Agrarian Policy .
The agrarians of Odesa region were the first in Ukraine to harvest summer fields. Winter barley harvesting has started in Izmail district. The first mowings on the area of 7 thousand hectares with a yield of 21 c / ha, yielded 14.7 thousand tons of grain of the new harvest.
In total, 1 million 61 thousand hectares of winter grain are subject to harvesting in Odesa region this year. In particular, 551 thousand hectares of winter wheat, 244 thousand hectares of winter barley, 50 thousand hectares of spring barley and 190 thousand hectares of rapeseed.
According to the same period last year, the harvest has not yet begun.