As of 27 October, agricultural producers have harvested 41.7 million tonnes of cereals and pulses, threshing 8.3 million hectares, or 72% of the forecast area.
This was reported by the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.
The average yield for cereals stands at 50.2 centners per hectare.
The harvest of late crops is currently under way. In particular, farmers have harvested 9.8 million tonnes of sunflower from 85% of the area, 7.9 million tonnes of maize from 29% of the area, and 3.2 million tonnes of soya from 91% of the area. They have also harvested 3.9 million tonnes of sugar beet, 60.1 thousand tonnes of buckwheat and 89 thousand tonnes of millet. Total output of sunflower, soya and rapeseed has reached 16.9 million tonnes.
The wheat, barley, peas and rapeseed harvest has been completed. The figures stand at 26.2 million tonnes of wheat, 6.6 million tonnes of barley and 833.6 thousand tonnes of peas.
By harvested grain area, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk and Mykolaiv regions are leading in Ukraine. The highest average yields are being recorded by farmers in Sumy region (69.8 centners per hectare), Khmelnytskyi region (69 centners per hectare), Bukovyna (64 centners per hectare) and Vinnytsia region (63 centners per hectare).