Ukraine has not yet harvested 5% of the corn crop, but has already started new sowing

According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, as of March 2, domestic farmers threshed 54.28 million tons of grain and leguminous crops from 11.3 million hectares or 98% of the planned area with an average yield of 48 tons/ha.

Currently, the harvesting of corn is underway, and as of March 2, 26.9 million tons were collected from 4.02 million hectares or 95% of the area with a yield of 6.69 tons/ha, while a week ago the gross harvest was 26.79 million tons.

Farmers of the Mykolaiv, Odesa, Zaporizhzhya, Vinnytsia, Chernivtsi, Kirovohrad, Ivano-Frankivsk, Khmilnytskyi, Ternopil, and Kyiv regions have fully completed harvesting. The largest crop on the specified date – 5.833 million tons – was collected by agricultural producers of Poltava Oblast.

At the same time as harvesting, farmers started sowing. According to operational data of the Ministry of Agriculture, as of March 2, 3.5 thousand hectares of grain and leguminous crops were sown in Odesa, including 1.5 thousand hectares with barley and 2 thousand hectares with peas.

The Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Center reports in its regular review that during the third decade of February, winter crops were in a state of shallow winter dormancy in most of the territory of Ukraine, and only in the southern regions of Odesa region, where high air and soil temperatures were observed, the germination of fresh greens was recorded.

In most regions, the decadal amount of precipitation amounted to 11-19 mm or 122-190% of the norm, in Mykolaiv, Donetsk, Sumy, Khmelnytskyi, Lviv and Rivne regions – 8-14 mm, which corresponds to the norm, in Kherson and Zakarpattia regions – 5-12 mm, which is 56-75% of the decade norm.

The condition of winter wheat crops is mostly good, but the reduction of sowing areas and the limited use of mineral fertilizers due to high prices will not allow obtaining a high grain yield in the current season.

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