Ukrainian grain harvest 2016 will be less 4.2% probably with 57.6 million tonnes, as the harvest of the previous year. That is the assessment of analysts APK - inform.
A severe drought in the summer and autumn 2015, which covered half of the Ukrainian grain growing region, about to a limited Wintergereideaussaat and led to fears of a poor harvest 2016.
The wheat harvest could have been compared with the previous year, lower by 19.3% so the consulting firm, without any concrete numbers were called.
Analysts put the Ukrainian wheat acreage at 6.0 million hectares versus 6.8 million hectares by 2015.
The acreage for corn and sunflower rose on the other hand. When the corn is expected with an increase in the harvest to 12.4% to 26.2 million tons
by 2015, the Ukraine earned 60 million tons of grain. Of which 26.5 million tons of wheat and 23.2 million tons of maize.
