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The ministry has named four regions are in the lead in terms of yield.
Ukrainian agrarians threshed 45.7 million tonnes of grain and legume crops of the 2020 harvest as of October 16, the Ministry for Development of Economy, Trade, and Agriculture reports.
"In total, 60.5 million tonnes of major crops was collected as of October 16 from an area of 19.5 million hectares [ha], of which 45.7 million tonnes of grain and legumes was threshed from an area of 12.06 million ha (78% of the target)," the ministry said in a statement on October 16.
In particular, 230,600 tonnes of millet was threshed from an area of 143,700 ha (96% of the target), 92,100 tonnes of buckwheat from 73,000 ha (93%), 10.5 million tonnes of sunflower seeds from 5.4 million ha (84%), 10 million tonnes of maize from 2.2 million ha (40%), and 1.8 million tonnes of soybeans from 917,100 ha (68%).
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The ministry says the following regions are in the lead by yields: Kharkiv region with 5.5 million tonnes, Dnipropetrovsk region with 4.4 million tonnes, Vinnytsia region with 4.2 million tonnes, and Poltava region with 4.2 million tonnes.
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As of September 1, 2020, the country's wheat harvest was estimated at 25.1 million tonnes, which was 12.4% down from the figure reported as of September 1, 2019. The barley crop shrank by 14%, to 7.77 million tonnes, that of peas declined by 16%, to 489,000 tonnes, while rapeseed crop dropped by 8.5%, to 2.57 million tons, according to the State Statistics Service.
The economy ministry has again revised downward its forecast for the grains and legumes yield, from 70 million tonnes to 68 million tonnes, over maize harvest losses, while the projection for oilseeds has remained unchanged at 20 million tonnes.