Ukrainian farmers already harvest grain and leguminous crops from 70% of area
"As of September 23, Ukrainian farmers harvested grain and leguminous crops from an area of 10.8 million hectares, or 70% of the projected area, and threshed 43.3 million tonnes of grains with an average yield of 40.3 centner/ha," the report reads.
In particular, Ukrainian farmers harvested 3.6 million tonnes of corn from 600 thousand hectares (12%); 68 thousand tonnes of buckwheat from 51 thousand hectares (76%); 133 thousand tonnes of millet from 71 thousand hectares (79%).
In addition, a total of 8.3 million tonnes of sunflowers were threshed from 3.7 million hectares (63% of the projected area) with an average yield of 22.6 centner/ha; 1.7 million tonnes of soybeans – from 742 thousand hectares (47%) with an average yield of 23.0 centner/ha; 990 thousand tonnes of sugar beet – from 22 thousand hectares (10%) with an average yield of 450 centner/ha.
The largest amount of grain was threshed in Odesa, Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv regions (3.2 million tonnes each), Dnipropetrovsk region (3.0 million tonnes), and Mykolaiv region (2.8 million tonnes).
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