Ukraine harvests 32.52m tonnes of wheat

KYIV: Ukrainian farms have almost completed the 2021 wheat harvest, threshing 32.52 million tonnes from 99.4% of the sowing area, with a yield of 4.62 tonnes per hectare, the agriculture ministry said on Tuesday. On Monday, the ministry said the 2021 wheat harvest could total 32 million tonnes in clean weight and this would allow the export of 23.8 million tonnes of the commodity in the 2021/22 July-June season.

The ministry said a total of 44.4 million tonnes of grain had been harvested as of Aug. 26 from 63.3% of the sowing area and the yield averaged 4.4 tonnes per hectare.