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Photo: grain export (me.gov.ua)
Compared to last year, the grain harvested 10 million tons less
As of December 14, Ukraine harvested 83.8 million tons of staple agricultural crops in an area of 24.1 million hectares. In particular, 65.4 million tons of cereals and legumes were harvested on an area of 15.3 million hectares.
This is reported by the press service of the Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine.
As indicated in the message, Ukrainian agricultural producers have already completed the autumn fieldwork.
In the context of collected cultures:
- wheat: 25.1 million tons from an area of 6.6 million hectares;
- barley: 7.8 million tons from an area of 2.4 million hectares;
- peas – 516.2 thousand tons from an area of 237.7 thousand hectares;
- corn: 29.8 million tons from an area of 5.3 million hectares;
- buckwheat: 106.5 thousand tons from an area of 78.5 thousand hectares;
- millet – 244 thousand tons from an area of 150.4 thousand hectares;
- sugar beet: 9.2 million tons from an area of 216 thousand hectares;
- sunflower: 13.1 million tons from an area of 6.4 million hectares;
- soy: 2.8 million tons from an area of 1.3 million hectares;
- rapeseed: 2.6 million tons out of an area of 1.1 million hectares.
Thus, the cereal harvest in 2020 was the lowest in the last three years. According to official data from the State Statistics Service, the cereal harvest amounted to: in 2017: 61,917 million tons, in 2018 – 70,057 million tons, in 2019 – 75,143 million tons.
Note that Ukraine has set a record for grain exports. According to the results of the 2019/2020 campaign, a record 57.2 million tons of cereals, pulses and flours were supplied to foreign markets. This is 6.8 million tons more than in the last marketing year, when exports amounted to 50.4 million tons.
