Wheat harvest in Ukraine at the level of last year - expert
Kyiv • UNN
Ukrainian farmers harvested about 22 million tons of wheat, which is the same as last year. Of this amount, about 16 million tons can be exported, which is important for the country's economy.
Ukrainian agrarians have harvested wheat at the level of last year, said Denys Marchuk, deputy chairman of the All-Ukrainian Agrarian Council, at a briefing at the Media Center Ukraine, UNN reports.
We harvested about 32 mln tons of early grains. In particular, when it comes to wheat, we are basically on par with last year's figures - almost 22 million tons of wheat were harvested
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According to him, the early grain group is performing quite well.
"Speaking about wheat, if we harvested about 22 million tons, about 16 million of them can go to export markets, which is very important for us in the context of obtaining funds for both farms and Ukraine as a whole," Marchuk explained.
