Ukraine harvested 48.5 million metric tons of grain to Dec. 17 on 15.47 million hectares, or 99.9% of the total area to be harvested, with the average yield of 3.13 tons a hectare, the Agriculture Ministry said Friday.
Ukraine is to attempt to reverse a long-running fall in sugar beet production which has turned the country into a sugar importer at a time of soaring prices. Kiev is to encourage farmers to raise beet plantings by 37% in 2010, to help boost domestic sugar output by some 80% to 2.5m tonnes, deputy farm minister Ivan Demchak said, according to the Kommersant newspaper.
Ukraine rapeseed harvest in 2010 is likely to increase by 20% compared with this year to 2.25 million metric tons, leading Ukrainian agricultural analyst APKInform said Friday.
As of November 25, the Crimea sowed winter crops throughout the area of 610 thsd ha, or 92% from the planned areas.
As of November 30, Ukraine harvested 47.8 mln tonnes of grains, a decrease of 12.2% compared to the same date of 2008, declared the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.
From the beginning of the current MY (July 2009 – June 2010), and as of November 30, 2010, Ukraine exported 11.3 mln tonnes of grains, an increase of 7% compared to the same date of 2008, declared the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.
During January-October of 2009, the volumes of agriculture products output (in comparable prices) in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Ukraine) in agricultural economies of all varieties increased by 6% compared to the same period of 2008, at the same time, agricultural enterprises reduced the index by 1.4%, economies of the population – increased by 14%, declared the Main department of statistics of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
As of November 2, 2009, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Ukraine) harvested 1.72 thsd tonnes of grains in bunker weight, a decrease of 3.6% compared to the same date of the previous year, declared the Main department of statistics of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
From the beginning of the current marketing year (MY, July 2009 – June 2010), and as of November 19, 2009, Ukraine exported 10.4 mln tonnes of grains, an increase of 4.5% compared to the same date of 2008, declared the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.
Ukraine’s agriculture ministry reported Monday that winter grains were in good condition on 39.8% of the total winter grain-planted area for the 2010 harvest, with winter grains in satisfactory condition on 43.5% of the total planted area and winter grains in poor condition on 16.7% of the total planted area.