Corn harvest starts in Ukraine, grains and legumes 61% collected

As of September 22, grain and leguminous crops in Ukraine yielded 26.1 mln t on 6.787 mln ha, which is 61% of the planned area, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food reports. The average yield of the crops is 3.84 t/ha (2021: 4.38 t/ha).

• wheat: 19.2 mln t on 4.7 mln ha (99%), avg. yield 4.1 t/ha
• barley: 5.5 mln t on 1.6 mln ha (100%), avg. yield 3.47 t/ha
• rapeseed: 3.1 mln t on 1.1 mln ha (100%), avg. yield 2.88 t/ha
• peas: 250.7 thou. t on 109.4 thou. ha (98%), avg. yield 2.29 t/ha
• millet: 68.1 thou. t on 28.8 thou. ha (64%), avg. yield 2.37 t/ha
• buckwheat: 66.1 thou. t on 47.2 thou. ha (40%), avg. yield 1.4 t/ha
• sunflower: 1.294 mln t on 672 thou. ha (14%), avg. yield 1.92 t/ha
• corn: 92.2 thou. t on 20.9 thou. ha (0.5%), avg. yield 4.41 t/ha
• soybean: 228 thou. t on 97.7 thou. ha (6%), avg. yield 2.33 t/ha
• sugar beet: 469 thou. t on 9.2 thou. ha (5%), avg. yield 51.2 t/ha

Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad and Odesa regions harvested more than 2 mln t of the new crop each. Agricultural producers in Vinnytsya, Volyn, Kyiv, Lviv, Mykolaiv, Poltava, Sumy, Ternopil, Kharkiv, Khmelnytsky and Cherkasy collected over 1 mln t of grains and legumes.

USDA projects wheat output in Ukraine in 2022/23 at 19.5 mln t, corn at 30 mln t, and sunflower at 10.5 mln t.

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