Ukraine wheat crop likely to rise

28 May, 2013

Ukraine's 2013 wheat harvest is likely to rise to 19.3 million tonnes from 15.8 million tonnes in 2012 due to better weather, a senior weather forecaster said on Monday. Tetyana Adamenko, head of the state weather forecasting centre's agriculture department said the overall harvest of winter grains - winter wheat, winter barley and winter rye - could total 22.4 million tonnes versus 17.1 million tonnes in 2012.

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