Ukrainian farmers thresh nearly 32 mln tonnes of grain of new harvest

Ukrainian farmers harvested about 32 million tonnes of grain crops from an area of 8 million hectares, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine has reported.

"As of July 31, Ukrainian farmers harvested 31.9 million tonnes of grain crops of the new harvest from an area of 8.4 million hectares, or 84% of the target," the report says.

In particular, Ukrainian farmers threshed 23.4 million tonnes of wheat from an area of 5.8 million hectares (85%); 7.6 million tonnes of barley from 2.3 million hectares (87%); 576,000 tonnes of peas from 251,000 hectares (96%); 175,000 tonnes of rye from 64,000 hectares (54%); and 108,000 tonnes of oats from 41,000 hectares (23%).

Also, 3.0 million tonnes of winter rape were gathered from an area of 1.2 million hectares (97%), with a yield of 24.5 centners per hectare.

The sowing campaign 2019 began a month earlier than last year. The total area under agricultural crops in all categories of farms for the 2019 harvest is about 27.7 million hectares.

Ukrinform