Almost 40 million tons of cereals and legumes were threshed in Ukraine

As of October 20, agricultural producers threshed 57.6 million tons of grain and oil crops. Kurkul.com writes about this with reference to data from the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.

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Harvesting of cereals and legumes was carried out on an area of 8.27 million hectares with a yield of 4.74 t/ha, 39.22 million tons of the crop were threshed, of which:

wheat — 22.189 million tons from an area of 4.69 million hectares (101% of the forecast), average yield — 4.73 tons/ha;

barley — 5.86 million tons from an area of 1.5 million hectares (101%), yield — 3.9 tons/ha;

peas — 396.8 thousand tons from an area of 154.4 thousand ha (103%), yield — 2.57 tons/ha;

buckwheat — 203.6 thousand tons from an area of 136.6 thousand hectares, yield — 1.49 tons/ha;

millet — 162.4 thousand tons from an area of 77.4 thousand hectares, yield — 2.1 tons/ha;

of corn — 9.28 million tons from an area of 1.37 million hectares, yield — 6.74 tons/ha.

Agricultural producers of Kyiv Oblast, Kirovohrad Oblast, Mykolaiv Oblast, Poltava Oblast, Sumy Oblast, Cherkasy Oblast and Khmelnytskyi Oblast threshed more than 2 million tons of grain in each oblast. In Odesa region, Vinnytsia region, and Dnipro region - more than 3 million tons each. The Zaporizhzhia Region has completed the collection of grain crops.

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Farmers collected 18.45 million tons of oil crops, of which:

rapeseed — 4 million tons from an area of 1.39 million hectares (98%), average yield — 2.87 tons/ha;

sunflower — 10.2 million tons from an area of 4.35 million hectares with a yield of 2.34 tons/ha;

soybeans — 4 million tons from 1.64 million hectares, yield — 2.58 tons/ha.

Sugar beet harvesting continues, they have been dug up on an area of 125.3 thousand hectares, 5.9 million tons of sweet roots have been dug up with a yield of 47.1 tons/ha.