14% of the area under corn in Ukraine remains unharvested

UkrAgroConsult

As of the end of December, 86% of Ukraine’s corn area was harvested.This is the only crop that is still being harvested. The total harvest of the new crop is 79 mln 200 thsd tonnes. Grains amounted to 58 million 392 thousand tons, and oilseeds – 20 million 764 thousand tons.

Grain and pulses crops were harvested on an area of 10,542 thousand hectares with a yield of 55.4 c/ha, including

• corn – 3 606.3 thou hectares at a yield of 78.1 c/ha, harvested 28 mln 148 thou tons;
• wheat was harvested on 4 694.5 thou hectares, with a yield of 47.9 c/ha, and 22 million 478 thousand tons were harvested;
• barley was harvested on 1 504.5 thousand hectares with a yield of 39.3 c/ha, with a harvest of 5 million 909 thousand tons;
• peas were harvested on 154.4 thousand hectares with a yield of 25.9 c/ha, with a harvest of 399.5 thousand tons;
• buckwheat was harvested on 140 thousand hectares at a yield of 14.8 c/ha, with a total harvest of 207.5 thousand tons;
• millet was harvested on 79.5 thou hectares at a yield of 22.7 c/ha, with a total harvest of 180.2 thou tons;

Other grains and pulsees were harvested on 362.6 thou hectares, yielding 1,070 thou tons.

Oilseeds were harvested on the area of 8,224 thou hectares, in particular:

• sunseed was harvested on an area of 5,020.8 thou hectares, with a yield of 11 mln 980 thou tons of seeds at 23.9 c/ha;
• soybeans were harvested on an area of 1 805.6 thousand hectares, harvesting 4 million 779 thousand tons at a yield of 26.5 c/ha.
• rapeseed was harvested on the area of 1 396 thou hectares, with a yield of 4 mln 5 thou tons of seeds at 28.7 c/ha. Harvesting is complete in all regions.

Sugar beet was harvested on an area of 249.1 thousand hectares, 11 million 879.5 thousand tons of sweet roots were dug up with a yield of 477 c/ha.

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