A third of the rapeseed area in Ukraine has already been harvested

Harvesting in Ukraine continues and is gaining momentum, Dnipropetrovsk Mykolaiv and Odesa regions have each collected more than a million tons of grain of the new crop. More than 59 percent of the area has been threshed for peas, and a third for rapeseed.

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According to operational data from the regions, harvesting of early grain and leguminous crops was carried out on an area of ​​2.1 million hectares (18%), 6.5 million tons of new crop grain were threshed, including:

• 1.2 million hectares of wheat were threshed, 3.8 million tons were threshed
• 811.4 thousand ha were threshed with barley, 2.5 million tons were threshed
• 75 thousand hectares of peas were threshed, 126.8 thousand tons were threshed

In addition, farmers of all regions are harvesting winter rapeseed, which has been threshed on an area of ​​400,000 hectares, (33%) threshed 896,400 tons of seeds with a yield of 22.4 tons/ha. 

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