Ukrainian farmers harvest grain and leguminous crops from 63% of area

"As of July 19, farmers in all regions harvested 21.6 million tonnes of grain crops of the new harvest from an area of 6.1 million hectares, or 63% of the target," the report reads.

In particular, Ukrainian farmers threshed 15.4 million tonnes of wheat from an area of 4.1 million hectares (63%); 5.6 million tonnes of barley from 1.7 million hectares (69%); 537,000 tonnes of peas from 237,000 hectares (84%); 32,000 tonnes of rye from 12,000 hectares (10%); and 12,000 tonnes of oats from 5,000 hectares (3%).

Also, 2.4 million tonnes of winter rape were gathered from an area of 1.0 million hectares (79%), with a yield of 23.7 centners per hectare.

The sowing campaign 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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