Farmers have threshed 7.4 million hectares of grains or 76pc of the early grains sown area, the ministry said in a statement.

The harvested volume includes 19.7 million tonnes of wheat and around 6.7 million tonnes of barley.

Ukraine plans to thresh 9.76 million hectares of early grains this year, including 6.6 million hectares of wheat and 2.5 million of barley.