In the Odessa region, the harvest of winter crops has begun. Agrarians from the south of the region were the first to enter the fields: the harvest started in Belgorod-Dniester, Bolgrad, and Izmail districts. Farms harvest winter barley. This was reported by the press service of the Odessa Regional State Administration.
Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate – July 1, 2021 – Agriculture
According to Alla Stoyanova, Director of the Department of Agrarian Policy, Food and Land Relations of the Odessa Regional State Administration, 3,230 hectares have been threshed, 15,500 tons have been threshed, and the yield of winter barley is 35-52 quintals per hectare.
We will remind that the area of harvesting of early grain and leguminous crops and rape in 2021, in Odessa region, makes 1 million 41,4 thousand hectares, including winter wheat and triticale of 570,2 thousand hectares, winter barley of 265,1 thousand ha, rye 0.9 thousand ha, spring barley 46.5 thousand ha, peas 21 000 ha, oats 1.8 thousand ha, spring wheat 4000 ha. In addition, winter and spring rapeseed is to be harvested on an area of 131.9 thousand hectares.
According to experts, the active course of the harvesting campaign should be expected in other districts of the Odessa region – in the first week of July.
The first cars loaded with grain harvested in 2021 were accepted by the Kulindor Bakery Plant, which is an enterprise of the State Reserve Agency of Ukraine. According to the plant’s director Volodymyr Bereznyak, the first 8 cars with barley came in, with a humidity of 11%.
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Source: Ukrgate