Ukraine harvests over 27M t of grain

The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine reported this, Ukrinform saw.

According to the report, as of the second half of August, the harvest was collected on 6.2 million hectares with a yield of 44.1 centners/ha. About 27.3 million tonnes of early grain crops were harvested.

Wheat was threshed on 4.4 million hectares (yield, 47.5 c/ha). Approx. 20.8 million tonnes were harvested.

The country harvested 5.57 million tonnes of barley on 1.4 million hectares (yield, 39.8 c/ha) and 379,100 tonnes of peas on 152,200 hectares (yield, 24.9 c/ha).

Also, farmers harvested 2,810 tonnes of millet on 2,320 hectares with a yield of 12.1 c/ha. 100 tonnes of buckwheat has been harvested on 80 hectares (yield, 11.3 c/ha).

As for other grains and pulses, they were harvested on 249,000 hectares, yielding 492,100 tonnes of grain.

"The leaders in grain harvesting are Zaporizhzhia agricultural producers, who have threshed 96% of the area. The largest harvest remains in Odesa region (3.2 million tonnes). Millet harvesting has started in Dnipro, Kherson, Ternopil, and Odesa regions. 13 regions have finished harvesting rapeseed. Currently, it has been threshed on 1.4 million hectares, with a yield of 3.9 million tonnes of seeds (28.8 c/ha)," the ministry added.

Agrarians in Poltava, Vinnytsia, and Odesa regions have completed harvesting early grain crops.

As reported, the ministry has improved its forecast for this year's grain and oilseed harvest to 56.4 and 20.3 million tonnes, respectively (76.7 million tonnes in total). The June forecast predicted that the 2023 grain harvest would not exceed 46 million tonnes. That's 10-15% less than last year.