Ukraine harvests 11.3 mln tonnes of grain

"As of July 8, farmers in all regions started harvesting early grain and leguminous crops. Some 11.3 million tonnes of grain of a new crop have been threshed from an area of 3.4 million hectares, or 35% of the target," the report reads.

In particular, Ukraine harvested 7.3 million tonnes of wheat from an area of 2.1 million hectares (32% of the target), 3.6 million tonnes of barley from an area of 1.1 million hectares (43% of the target), and 402,000 tonnes of peas from an area of 187,000 hectares (66% of the target).

Farmers also threshed 1.1 million tonnes of winter rape from an area of 519,000 hectares (40% of the target).

According to the ministry, farmers from Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, Mykolaiv, Poltava, Kharkiv and Ivano-Frankivsk regions began to harvest rye, threshing 2,000 tonnes from an area of 600 hectares (0.5% of the target) as of July 8. Farmers from Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Mykolaiv and Odesa regions started harvesting oats, threshing 1,500 tonnes from an area of 1,000 hectares (0.4% of the target).

The sowing campaign in 2019 began a month earlier than last year. The total area under agricultural crops in all categories of farms for the 2019 harvest is about 27.7 million hectares.

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