Ukraine retained its place in the TOP-10 of the world's largest wheat producers

According to the results of the current year, Ukraine became the ninth largest producer of wheat with an indicator of 20.5 million tons. As noted by a number of mass media with reference to the information «Interfax-Ukraine», this season Ukraine was overtaken in terms of wheat production by China (138 million tons), the EU (134.7 million tons), India (103 million tons), Russia (91 million tons ), USA (44.9 million tons), Canada (35 million tons), Australia (33 million tons) and Pakistan (26.4 million tons). Argentina (17.5 million tons), Turkey (17.25 million tons), Great Britain (14.6 million tons), Iran (13.2 million tons), Kazakhstan (13 million tons), Egypt (9 .8 million tons), Brazil (9.2 million tons) and Uzbekistan (6.6 million tons).

In general, the total planted area of wheat in 2022 in the whole world exceeded 220 million hectares.

As a reminder, in 2021, Ukraine harvested a record crop of 106 million tons of grain, leguminous and oil crops: 84 million tons of grain and leguminous crops, and 22.6 million tons of oil crops.

It should be noted that as of the beginning of last week, harvesting of grain and leguminous crops in Ukraine was carried out on an area of 10.1 million hectares (90%) with a yield of 46.4 quintals per hectare, and 46.6 million tons of grain were threshed. At the same time, the highest yield of grain and leguminous crops among the farmers of Khmelnytskyi region is 70.2 quintals per hectare.

Farmers of Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk regions threshed the most wheat - more than 1.6 million tons, Poltava region is the leader in harvesting corn (2.8 million tons), and buckwheat was threshed the most in Zhytomyr region - 29.6 thousand tons.

Currently, farmers of Mykolaiv Oblast, Odesa and Bukovyna have completed harvesting this year's crop of all agricultural crops, Volyn, Transcarpathia and Ivano-Frankivsk are close to completion.