Farmers in eight regions start harvesting early grain crops

"As of June 25, farmers in Mykolaiv, Odesa, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kirovohrad and Poltava regions started harvesting early grain crops. In total, 1.6 million tonnes (5%) of grain crops of the new harvest were gathered from an area of 522,000 hectares,” reads the report.

In particular, Ukrainian farmers threshed 496,000 tonnes of winter wheat from an area of 156,000 hectares (2%); 1.0 million tonnes of barley from 324,000 hectares (13%); and 88,000 tonnes of peas from 42,000 hectares. Also, 93,000 tonnes of winter rape were gathered from an area of 52,000 hectares, with a yield being 18.0 centners per hectare (17.4 centners per hectare in 2018).

As reported, the 2019 sowing campaign began a month earlier than last year. The sowing area of agricultural crops in all categories of farms for the 2019 harvest makes up about 27.7 million hectares.

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