Ukrainian farmers gather over 60.5 mln tonnes of main crops

In particular, 45.7 million tonnes of grain and leguminous crops were threshed from an area of 12.06 million hectares (78% of the forecast), the Ministry of Economic Development, Trade, and Agriculture of Ukraine posted on Facebook.

In particular, Ukrainian farmers gathered 230.6 thousand tonnes of millet from 143.7 thousand hectares (96% of the forecast); 92.1 thousand tonnes of buckwheat from 73 thousand hectares (93%); 10.5 million tonnes of sunflower from 5.4 million hectares (84%); 1.8 million tonnes of soybeans from 917.1 thousand hectares (68%); and 10 million tonnes of corn from 2.2 million hectares (22%).

In addition, 2 million tonnes of sugar beets were gathered from an area of 46.9 thousand hectares (22% of the forecast).

The following Ukrainian regions have the biggest gross output so far: Kharkiv region (5.5 million tonnes), Dnipropetrovsk region (4.4 million tonnes), Vinnytsia region (4.2 million tonnes), Poltava region (4.2 million tonnes).

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