Record grain yield in Ukraine

The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine updated the forecast for the gross production of grain crops to 59.7 million tons. The volumes of collection of oil crops remain unchanged and amount to 21.6 million tons. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.

The total volume of grain and oil crop harvest for the current year is forecast to be 81.3 million tons.

According to preliminary estimates, in 2023 farmers will collect:

wheat — 22.2 million tons;

barley — 5.8 million tons;

corn — 30.1 million tons;

sunflower — 13 million tons;

soybeans — 4.6 million tons;

rapeseed — more than 4 million tons.

By the way, as of December 8, 78 million tons of grain and oilseeds were threshed. How much in terms of cultures.

The level of grain yield also increased - up to 5.47 t/ha. This is a record indicator for Ukraine, before that the highest level of grain yield was in 2021 — 5.36 t/ha.

"Actually, this made it possible to once again revise the volume of production of this year's crop towards an increase and, in particular, to increase the indicators of corn production from 28.5 million tons to more than 30 million tons. Corn has already been harvested on 87% of the area. Last year, on the same date, 66% of the area of this crop was harvested. Under favorable weather conditions, corn harvesting will continue, although part of the crop will remain in the fields until spring," explained the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.