Ukraine's agriculture ministry on Monday released the following data on the 2018 harvest. Farmers in Ukraine had harvested 66.4 million tonnes of grain as of Monday, with a yield of 4.65 tonnes per hectare. By the same date last year Ukraine had harvested 57.3 million tonnes. Farmers have threshed 14.3 million hectares of grain out of a total area of 14.84 million hectares.
Farmers have harvested 31.2 million tonnes of corn from 4.1 million hectares, 90 percent of the sown area. The yield averaged 7.59 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.