Ukraine as of November 25, had threshed 61.6 million tons of grain and leguminous crops from 13.6 million ha (95% of the forecast).
According to the press service of the Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry, with the forecast being 5.9 million ha sunflower has been harvested from an area of 5.87 million ha (99%) in the amount of 13.4 million tons.
Corn harvest from 3.6 million ha (84% of the forecast) amounted to 22.4 million tons. Buckwheat was collected from 149,000 ha (100%) in the amount of 192,000 tons. Millet was harvested from 104,000 ha in the amount of 191,000 tons (100%).
Some 4 million tons of soybeans were harvested from 1.8 million ha (96% of the target).
Sugar beets were dug on 266,000 ha or 91% of the target (12.7 million tons). The yield is 477 hundredweights per ha.
The ministry anticipates that Ukraine’s grain harvest this year would be 64 million tons. (Interfax/Business World Magazine)
