The average yield of grain was 3.18 tonnes per hectare.
In particular, they harvested 3.1 million tonnes of wheat from 904,000 ha (14% of the plan), while 2.96 million tonnes of barley was harvested from 936,000 ha (38%), and 1,000 tonnes of rye from 500 ha. The yield of oats was 600 tonnes gathered from 300 ha and that of peas was 477,000 tonnes from 205,000 hectares (54% of the plan).
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Early grain and leguminous crops are planned to be harvested from 9.4 million ha.
In 2016, Ukraine gathered a record high harvest of 65.95 million tonnes of grain and leguminous croups, which was 9.7% up on 2015, according to Ukraine's agriculture ministry.
