As of 13 October, Ukrainian farmers had harvested 37.1 million tonnes of cereals and pulses, covering 65.2% of the planned area.
This was reported by the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.
In addition, the gross harvest of oilseeds reached 13.9 million tonnes.
Farms are now actively harvesting late-season crops. In particular, the maize harvest nearly doubled over the week to 3.5 million tonnes, although only 13% of the area has been threshed, with an average yield of 59.1 centners per hectare. Sunflower has already been harvested from two-thirds of fields, producing 7.4 million tonnes, while the soya harvest reached 2.56 million tonnes from 73% of the area. Sugar beet digging currently stands at 1.58 million tonnes, with work fully completed on 19% of the sown plots.
The harvest of groat crops is already entering the final stretch: farmers have threshed 91% of the buckwheat area and 88% of millet. At the same time, farmers have almost completely finished harvesting early cereals and rapeseed. In total, they have harvested 26.1 million tonnes of wheat (average yield 51.1 centners per hectare), 6.55 million tonnes of barley (44.3 centners per hectare), 3.88 million tonnes of rapeseed (29.2 centners per hectare) and 823.7 thousand tonnes of peas (27.3 centners per hectare).
The leader in gross grain harvest remains Odesa region with a result of 5.65 million tonnes. The top three also included Dnipropetrovsk region, where 2.83 million tonnes were harvested, and Vinnytsia region with 2.73 million tonnes. The highest average grain yields are recorded by farmers in Khmelnytskyi region at 70.5 centners per hectare, as well as Sumy region (66.3 centners per hectare) and Vinnytsia region (60.6 centners per hectare).