Ukraine's farmers harvest 35.6 mln tonnes of grains

MOSCOW. Oct 13 (Interfax) - Ukrainian farmers threshed 52.5 million tonnes of grains and oilseeds, of which 35.597 million tonnes were grains, and 16.883 million tonnes oilseeds, Ukrainian media reported, citing the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food.

The harvest of grain and leguminous crops occurred on an area of 7.738 million hectares with an average yield of 46 c/ha, the report says.

To date, the country has harvested 5.863 million tonnes of barley from 1.505 million hectares; 22.210 million tonnes of wheat from 4.695 million hectares; 5.846 million tonnes of corn from 884,400 hectares; 396,800 tonnes of peas from 154,400 hectares; 162,400 tonnes of millet from 72,000 hectares; and 188,800 tonnes of buckwheat from 127,700 hectares.

In addition, 929,000 tonnes of other grains and leguminous crops were threshed from 300,500 hectares.

Harvesting of oilseeds continues, the ministry said, with 4.005 million tonnes of rapeseed harvested from an area of 1.396 million hectares; 9.042 million tonnes of sunflower from an area of 3.898 million hectares, and 3.776 million tonnes of soybeans collected from 1.466 million hectares.

A harvest of 4.602 million tonnes of sugar beets came from 96,400 hectares, which was 39% of the planned harvest area.

Due to a revision in the forecast, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy is monitoring information on the yields of all agricultural crops. The yield for wheat, barley, peas and millet is unchanged from last week's indicators of 47.3 c/ha, 39 c/ha, 25.7 c/ha and 22.6 c/ha, respectively. The yield of buckwheat increased to 14.8 c/ha /ha from 14.2 c/ha the previous week; for corn, it was up to 66.1 c/ha from 62.5 c/ha. The yield of rapeseed remained unchanged at 28.7 c/ha; soybeans increased slightly to 25.8 c/ha; sunflower rose to 23.2 c/ha from 23.0 c/ha and sugar beet yield increased to 477.4 c/ha.

The adjusted forecast from the Ministry of Agrarian Policy shows that, in 2023, Ukrainian farmers will harvest 79.1 million tonnes of grains and oilseeds, from which grains will be obtained in the following volumes: wheat - 21.7 million tonnes, barley - 5.7 million tonnes and corn - 28 .5 million tonnes. The gross production of oilseeds will reach 21.6 million tonnes, with sunflower at 13 million tonnes, rapeseed at 4 million tonnes, and soybeans at 4.6 million tonnes. The sugar beet harvest is forecast at 13.7 million tonnes.

As reported, at the beginning of spring 2023, the total gross harvest for the current year was forecast at 63.5 million tonnes, or 13% less than in 2022.