Farmers of Ukraine harvested 2.2 million tons of sugar beet
Agricultural producers in 14 regions from 18 beet-growing regions began to dig sugar beets (47.2 thousand hectares, 21% in Ukraine), 2.2 million tons of sweet roots were dug out with a yield of 47.9 t / ha.
This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. "Most of the sugar beet was dug up in Cherkassy and Kharkov region - 49% and 47%, respectively, to the forecast, and their highest average yield - 58 t / ha in Ternopil," - the message says. Note that the harvesting of grain and leguminous crops continues, carried out on an area of 10.7 million hectares with a yield of 4.3 t / ha, 47 million tons of grain have been threshed. The leader in grain threshing is Odessa region, which threshed almost 4.4 million tons of grain, and Khmelnitsky region in terms of yield with an indicator of 5.9 t / ha. “The harvesting of rapeseed has been completed on an area of one million hectares with a yield of 2.8 t / ha, more than 2.9 million tons of seeds have been threshed. The highest seed yield is in Ternopil (3.7 t / ha) and Khmelnytsky (3.5 t / ha) regions, ”the ministry added.
In addition, agricultural producers in 18 regions have begun harvesting corn (7% in Ukraine). Most of the areas were threshed by the agrarians of the Nikolayev region - 61% of the forecast, and its highest yield in the Chernihiv region - 9.2 t / ha. “Agrarians from 16 regions continue to harvest buckwheat (71% in Ukraine), which generally harvested 79 thousand tons with a yield of 1.3 t / ha; have already finished, "the Ministry of Agrarian Policy notes. Agricultural producers in 11 regions collect millet (81% in Ukraine), and Vinnitsa, Donetsk, Zaporozhye, Lugansk, Sumy, Ternopil, Kherson and Cherkassy regions have already finished collecting it. “Sunflower harvested from an area of 2.7 million hectares (42% in Ukraine) with a yield of 2.1 t / ha. Most of it is collected in the Kherson region - 93% of the forecast, and the highest yield in the Khmelnytsky region - 3.4 t / ha. Soybeans harvested from an area of 359 thousand hectares, (28% in Ukraine). Most of its acreage was harvested in the Kherson region - 93% to the forecast, and the highest yield in the Khmelnytsky region - 3.3 t / ha, ”the ministry summed up.
Recall that Ukrainian factories have produced 19 thousand tons of sugar since the beginning of the season.