Ukrainian farmers harvest grain and leguminous crops from 63% of area

Ukrainian farmers harvested 21.6 million tonnes of grain crops from an area of 6.1 million hectares, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine has reported.

"As of July 19, farmers in all regions harvested 21.6 million tonnes of grain crops of the new harvest from an area of 6.1 million hectares, or 63% of the target," the report reads.

In particular, Ukrainian farmers threshed 15.4 million tonnes of wheat from an area of 4.1 million hectares (63%); 5.6 million tonnes of barley from 1.7 million hectares (69%); 537,000 tonnes of peas from 237,000 hectares (84%); 32,000 tonnes of rye from 12,000 hectares (10%); and 12,000 tonnes of oats from 5,000 hectares (3%).

Also, 2.4 million tonnes of winter rape were gathered from an area of 1.0 million hectares (79%), with a yield of 23.7 centners per hectare.

The sowing campaign 2019 began a month earlier than last year. The total area under agricultural crops in all categories of farms for the 2019 harvest is about 27.7 million hectares.

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