Ukraine's agriculture ministry announced the following data on the 2018 harvest on Wednesday: Farmers in Ukraine had harvested 46.1 million tonnes of grain as of Wednesday, with a yield of 3.88 tonnes per hectare. By the same date last year Ukraine had harvested 43.7 million tonnes.
Farmers have threshed 11.9 million hectares of grains out of a total area of 14.84 million hectares. Farmers have harvested 11.2 million tonnes of corn from 1.8 million hectares, 39 percent of the sown area. The yield averaged 6.28 tonnes per hectare.
They have completed the wheat harvest, having threshed 25.1 million tonnes of the grain, with an average yield of 3.8 tonnes per hectare. They also harvested 7.53 million tonnes of barley with a yield of 3.03 tonnes per hectare from 100 percent of the sown area. Ukraine plans to harvest 63.1 million tonnes of grain this year, the ministry has said.
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