3 December 2023

As of November 30, corn in Ukraine has been harvested from 85% of the projected areas, more than 26 million tons have been collected.

According to information from the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, as of November 30, about 85% of the area under corn in Ukraine has been harvested.

The total current corn crop size is 26 million tons, which is already almost equal to the total harvest of the previous year.

The current yield is 7.6 t/ha, which is the third largest figure in Ukrainian history after Y2018 (7.84 t/ha) and Y2021 (7.68 t/ha).

* - Y2023 - estimation

Due to difficult weather conditions, corn harvesting slowed down significantly - during the reporting week, only 117,000 hectares were threshed, from which 1.2 million tons of grains were harvested.

As of November 30, an area of 614,000 hectares remains unharvested, mainly in Poltava (27% of corn area unharvested), Chernihiv (30%) and Sumy (32%) regions.

Despite the large part area still to be harvested, Poltava regions currently has the highest volume of corn crop - more than 3 million tons (at an average yield of 8.1 t/ha), the leader in terms of yield in Ukraine is Khmelnytskyi region (10.4 t/ha).

Harvesting of sunflower and soybeans has been completed in Ukraine. According to preliminary data of Minagro, sunflower was threshed from an area of 5 million hectares. The yield is 2.38 t/ha, total crop basing on preliminary official data made more than 11.9 million tons.

As for soybeans, about 1.8 million hectares of this crop were harvested, total crop made record-high 4.8 million tons with an average yield of 2.65 tons/ha.