New crop campaign 59% completed in Ukraine, sunflower harvest starts - 26.08.2022

New crop campaign 59% completed in Ukraine, sunflower harvest starts - 26.08.2022

Early grain and leguminous crops were harvested on 6.6 mln ha in Ukraine as of August 25, which is 59% of the total sown area. The average yield of the crops made up 3.84 t/ha.

The Agrarian Ministry reports that the highest average yield of crops as of the reporting date was produced in Khmelnytsky region — 6.23 t/ha.

Producers have collected 25.3 mln t of new crop, including:

  • wheat: 18.8 mln t on 4.6 mln ha (98%), avg. yield 4.08 t/ha
  • barley: 5.5 mln t on 1.6 mln ha (99%), avg. yield 3.46 t/ha
  • rapeseed: 3.1 mln t on 1.085 mln ha (99%), avg. yield 2.84 t/ha
  • peas: 246.1 thou. t on 108.8 thou. ha (98%), avg. yield 2.26 t/ha
  • millet: 9.1 thou. t on 4.1 thou. ha (9%), avg. yield 2.19 t/ha
  • buckwheat: 2 thou. t on 1.5 thou. ha (1%), avg. yield 1.32 t/ha
  • sunflower: 18.8 thou. t on 23.5 thou. ha (1%), avg. yield 0.8 t/ha

 

 

 

 

 

 

Agriproducers of Mykolaiv, Zakarpattya, Vinnytsya, Kirovohrad, Poltava, Sumy, Khmelnytsky, Chernivtsi and Chernihiv regions have completed early crops threshing.

Producers in Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad and Odesa region have collected more than 2 mln t of new crop.

USDA projects wheat output in Ukraine in 2022/23 at 19.5 mln t.

Source: https://latifundist.com/ Image: Katrin M from https://pixabay.com/