As of December 19, Ukraine has harvested 56.58 million tonnes of cereals and pulses from 10.89 million hectares, representing 94% of the total sown area, according to the Ministry of Economy, Environment and Agriculture.
Harvesting continues across major crops: corn has been collected from 3.78 million hectares (86%), yielding 26.45 million tonnes at an average of 7.0 t/ha; sunflower seeds from 4.83 million hectares (93%), producing 9.15 million tonnes at 1.89 t/ha; soybeans from 2.02 million hectares (98%), totaling 4.79 million tonnes at 2.37 t/ha; and other cereals and pulses from 333.1 thousand hectares (85%), amounting to 933.8 thousand tonnes.
Southern and western regions are leading in harvest progress. Grain and pulse harvesting is fully completed in Zaporizhzhia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Mykolaiv, and Khmelnytskyi regions. Near completion is reported in Odesa (99.8%), Kirovohrad (98.6%), Vinnytsia (97.8%), and Rivne (97.2%) regions.
The slowest harvesting rates are recorded in Kherson (70.8%), Kharkiv (80.2%), and Sumy (82.5%) regions.
