Agricultural Competition – go on the record!

  Experts predict that this year Ukrainian farmers will harvest a record crop of agricultural products: potatoes, rice, buckwheat, peas, corn. The absolute record grain exports will amount to more than 41 mln. Tons.

    Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and technical policy in the agro-industrial complex Suhomlin Leonid said that the expected yield of grain harvest in 2016 will reach 63 million. T., Is 3 million. Tons. more than in 2015.

    Agrarians plan to harvest a wheat only at the level of 25.5 million. Tons. net weight of which is 17 million. tons. You can export. The actual harvest figures could be higher to 27 mln.tn., but frequent changes in tax rules in the agricultural sector is forcing farmers to underestimate the actual results of the harvest. Already ended the harvesting of early grain and leguminous crops, gross yield of which was 38 mln.tn. As for the late crops, when formed on the forecast of the harvest weather was not the best, especially in the southern regions: the shortage of rainfall and dry weather. Therefore, the plan to collect the harvest up to 60 tons per hectare.

   Harvesting of maize has increased as compared to 2015 by more than 3 mln.tn. Ukraine is the fourth consecutive year, collecting 60 mln.tn. grain to step over the line and reach the figure of 80 mln.tn. It needs better material support farmers.

   As seen in exports, the Ukrainian products in demand in the world. It is a measure of grain quality and compliance with phytosanitary norms. Negotiations with countries such as Egypt, Israel, Indonesia on simplifying the phytosanitary requirements for the export of Ukrainian grain.

   In 2016, records not only the “grain” and “potato”, “Grecianii”, “rice” and “pea”. According to the State Statistics Service as of August 1, collected 2.5 mln.tn. potatoes, which is 30% more compared to the previous year. The leaders became Vinnitsa and Zhitomir region.

   Due to last year’s deficit of buckwheat this year it sowed more and harvest was 174 thousand tons, while that on the domestic market must be 150-160 thousand. Tons.

   The record for the entire Ukrainian history became goroha- harvest 728 thousand tons

   Kherson region became the leader of the rice collection and gave Ukraine at the 22th place among 118 countries producers of this crop.