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The pace of the harvest is accelerating. According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, as of July 20, Ukraine has harvested 1337.40 thousand hectares of cereals and legumes (11% of the planned 11754.85 thousand hectares). 5469.04 thousand tons have been threshed with an average yield of 4.09 tons per hectare.
Specifically:
- wheat (winter+spring) — 633.24 thousand hectares (12% of the planned 5125.14 thousand hectares), 2599.82 thousand tons threshed with a yield of 4.11 tons per hectare,
- barley (winter+spring) — 580.51 thousand hectares (39% of 1481.84), 2562.71 thousand tons harvested with a yield of 4.41 tons per hectare,
- peas — 121.56 thousand hectares (41% of 296.54 thousand hectares), 301.43 thousand tons threshed with a yield of 2.48 tons per hectare.
The harvesting of winter and spring rapeseed is also underway. 216.21 thousand hectares have already been threshed out of the planned 1320.60 thousand hectares, which is 16%, with 429.60 thousand tons threshed and a yield of 1.99 tons per hectare.
The threshing of peas is proceeding at the highest rate, with over 40% of the areas already harvested. Farmers in the Odesa region have harvested the largest areas of this legume crop — 48.6 thousand hectares (46% of the plan). The Mykolaiv region ranks second with 34.9 thousand hectares (71%), and the Kirovohrad region is third, with 15.7 thousand hectares threshed (50%).
The top five also include:
- Dnipropetrovsk region — 7.7 thousand hectares (45%);
- Poltava region — 3.2 thousand hectares (26%).
Odesa also leads in the total sown area of peas for the 2026 harvest — 106.9 thousand hectares. Farmers in the Mykolaiv region have allocated half that amount to this legume — 49.2 thousand hectares.
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The western and central regions are leading in terms of yield. The best result is currently demonstrated by the Volyn region — 3.29 tons per hectare, although the cultivated areas there are small, with only 3 thousand hectares planned and 0.87 thousand hectares harvested so far.
The top 5 regions for yield also include:
- Cherkasy — 3.07 tons per hectare;
- Ternopil — 2.83 tons per hectare;
- Khmelnytskyi — 2.75 tons per hectare;
- Donetsk and Kirovohrad — 2.70 tons per hectare each.
Meanwhile, the leaders in crop sown areas show the following yield results:
- Odesa — 2.51 tons per hectare
- Mykolaiv — 2.38 tons per hectare,
- Kirovohrad — 2.7 tons per hectare.
The average yield of peas across the country is almost 2.5 tons per hectare.
Alla Husarova, SuperAgronom.com
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