This year, the gross production of grain and oil crops will amount to about 74 million tons, of which about 52.4 million tons of grain and 21.7 million tons of oil crops. This would represent a drop of around 10% compared to the 2023 crop of 82 million tonnes. This is stated in the preliminary assessments of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.
It is predicted that this year farmers will be able to collect grain in the following volumes: wheat – 19.2 million tons (22.2 million tons were collected last year), barley – 4.9 million tons (last year – 5.7 million tons) and corn – 26.7 million tons (it was 30.5 million tons).
Among the oilseeds, an increase in the volume of soybeans is predicted - the production of 5.2 million tons is expected, in 2023, 4.7 million tons were harvested. Sunflower production is forecast at 12.4 million tons, last year 12.9 million tons were harvested. Rape harvest is forecast to be 4.1 million tons, last year it was 4.7 million tons.
Sown areas of grain and leguminous crops are forecast at the level of 10.6 million hectares (-395 thousand hectares before the indicator of 2023). Of these, 4.3 million hectares of winter wheat have been sown (-0.3 million hectares), spring wheat is expected to cover 0.2 million hectares (+0.2 thousand hectares). Winter barley was sown on 0.47 million ha (-0.15 million ha), the area of spring barley is forecast to be 0.94 million ha (+0.06 million ha), corn – 3.9 million ha (-62 thousand ha ).
At the same time, among oilseeds, the area of soybeans is increasing. It is predicted that it will be sown on an area of 2.2 million hectares - this is almost 400 thousand hectares more than last year. It is predicted that sunflower will be sown almost as much as last year - 5.3 million hectares. Rape on 1.5 million hectares, which is 0.1 million hectares less than last year.
