Ukraine has already harvested 3.7 million tons of new crops. This is reported by the Committee on Agrarian and Land Policy, UNN reports.
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According to the Committee on Agrarian and Land Policy, farmers in 21 regions of Ukraine have already harvested a significant portion of early grain crops. For example, soybean harvesting has started in Dnipropetrovs'k region.
As of today, 1,154.3 thousand hectares of grain and oilseeds have been threshed, and 3.7 million tons of new crops have been harvested.
In particular, farmers collected:
- wheat - 1.62 million tons from 482.2 thousand hectares;
- barley - 1.56 million tons from 402.7 thousand hectares;
- peas - 166.4 thousand tons from 82 thousand hectares;
- rapeseed - 285.9 thousand tons from 186.9 thousand hectares;
- soybeans - 0.3 thousand tons from 0.2 thousand hectares.
The leaders of the grain harvest were farmers in Mykolaiv, Odesa and Dnipro regions, where 314.2 thou hectares, 205.1 thou hectares and 158.2 thou hectares were harvested respectively.
The best yields were recorded in Ivano-Frankivsk region - 67.5 centners per hectare.
In addition, according to the Chernihiv Regional Military Administration, farmers started harvesting winter rapeseed and barley on July 2, a week and a half earlier than last year. In particular, they harvested 0.9 thou tons of rapeseed from 0.3 thou hectares of the projected area and 0.37 thou tons of barley from 0.1 thou hectares. The yield of winter rapeseed is 30 centners per hectare, and barley - 37 centners per hectare.
In total, the company plans to harvest 57.2 thousand hectares of rapeseed and 256 thousand hectares of early grains and legumes.