29.11.2021
The next calendar year is coming to the end. Analysts are resuming the final results of harvesting crops in Ukraine. We produced analysis of totals and now we are ready to share with you some statistical figures for the collection of cereals and legumes.
We all could see in August that the harvest of 2021 in Ukraine should be encouraging high. For example, the harvest of wheat had been expected approximately figures of 32,5 millions of ton, and the corn – about 37,5 millions of ton.
So, as of November 1, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine published data that about 65,5 million tons of grain and leguminous crops were harvested from 13,3 million hectares. It is 122 % of gross yield in relation to the previous year. If we take relation of 1 centner to 1 hectare, the yield is 49,2 (it is 123 % in relation to the previous 2020 year). As of November 19, the press-service of Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine announced that gross yield of cereals and legumes is 76,7 million tons. They were harvested from 14,9 million hectares. Average yield is 51,6 centers/hectares. It was 93 % of the forecasting. Partly, 32,6 million tons of wheat - from 7 million hectares and (data from November 1). This result is above forecasting already.
21 million tons of corn have been got from about 3 hectares. But as of November 18, corn was threated on 4,4 million hectares (84% of the forecast), from which 31,8 million tons of grain were harvested with a yield of 72,2 center/hectare. At the same time, the harvesting of corn is still ongoing. As you know, corn grain can be harvested when the content of dry mass of grain is above 70%. Premature cleaning leads to a shortage of energy by 1.3 ... 1.7% per week. Thus, the corn grain harvest usually goes to finish to the end of November.
The volume of production, yield and the area of some agricultural crops collected by their species as of 01 November, 2021 as per data of State Statistics Service of Ukraine
| Agricultural crops |
Harvested area,
thsd. centner, 2021 |
Harvested area, %
(2021/2020) |
Volume of production,
thsd. centner, 2021 |
Volume of production,
% (2021/2020) |
Yield, centner per ha of the harvested area 2021 |
Yield, %
(2021/2020) |
| Wheat |
7 028,8 |
108,0 |
325 663,7 |
128,9 |
46,3 |
119,3 |
| Corn |
2 957,9 |
81,8 |
209 927,5 |
113,6 |
71,0 |
138,9 |
| Barley |
2 462,0 |
104,0 |
96 375,6 |
123,2 |
39,1 |
118,5 |
| Oat |
176,8 |
89,1 |
4 913,2 |
92,4 |
27,8 |
103,7 |
| Buckwheat |
83,3 |
105,7 |
1 103,1 |
110,2 |
13,3 |
104,7 |
| Sunflower seeds |
6 268,0 |
100,7 |
157 420,3 |
123,4 |
25,1 |
122,4 |
| Pea |
238,9 |
102,3 |
5 801,5 |
117,8 |
24,3 |
115,2 |
| Millet |
79,7 |
54,4 |
2 017,7 |
82,0 |
25,3 |
150,6 |
| Rice |
5,9 |
111,9 |
362,5 |
111,2 |
60,8 |
99,3 |
The geography of the leaders in grain harvesting in Ukraine looks like this:
By the volume of production of all crops of grain and legumes, the first place is occupied by the Odessa region (5 million tons), next place of Kharkov region (47 202,4 thsd. centner), Dnipropetrovsk region has the third place with 46 208,4 thsd. centner, Poltava region has 43 464,9 thsd. centner of harvest, and Vinnytsia region – 41 481,8 thsd. centners.
By the yield (centner per ha of the harvested area), the top five looks like this:
The first place is occupied by Chernihiv region with yield figure of 66,8. Next point goes to Khmelnitskiy region with yield figure of 66,6. Vinnytsia region has got 66,4, Cherkasy region - 65,9, Kyiv region – 63,3.
As for oilseeds. Sunflower by November 19 in Ukraine was harvested on 6,442 million hectares (this is 99% of the forecast). The collection of oilseeds is 15,8 million tons, and the yield is 24,5 centers/hectare.
In the next digest, we can find statistics of popular cereal crops by region and average prices of agricultural products over the past six months.
