According to the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine as for January 10, in 2007 all the Ukrainian economic entities harvested 29.3 mln tonnes of grain (including maize), down 14.5% as compared to 2006, APK-Inform reports. At that, the volume of milling grain totaled 14.9 mln tonnes (51%). At that, the average yield totaled 21.8 c/ha.
According to the report, the reduction of gross grain yield in 2007 was conditioned by the reduction of the harvested acreage (by 765.800 ha or 5.4%) as well as the decrease of yield (by 2.3 c/ha or 9.5%).
The indicated volume included 13.9 mln tonnes of wheat. The barley yield in 2007 totaled 6 mln tonnes, down 47.3% as compared to 2006 conditioned by unfavorable weather of spring-summer 2007.
At the same time, the yield of maize for grain increased to 7.4 mln tonnes (up 15.5%) which was conditioned by the expansion of sowing areas.
