OREANDA-NEWS. August 02, 2011. As for August, 1st in Ukraine it has been threshed more than 10.1 million hectares of fields. It is threshed 30 million tons of grain at average productivity 29.9 cwt/hectares. The parity of food wheat up to fodder is 60% up to 40%. The Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Mykola Prysyazhnyuk informed about it.

According to the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, such parameters we managed to reach only in 1990 and 2008. "We approach to a sowing campaign with the maximal responsibility in this year. The areas of crops have been increased, reached record parameters of application of fertilizers; material support of agrarian and industrial complex was improved. As consequence, even at not the most favourable weather conditions it was possible to organize a harvest at top-level", - Prysyazhnyuk noted.

It has been threshed of grain in Odesa region (2.6 million tons), Mykolaiv and Kherson regions (2.2 million tons), Zaporizhya, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Vinnytsia regions (2 million tons), Donetsk, Kirovograd, Poltava regions and AR Crimea (1,5 - 1,9 million tons). An one million boundary was reached by Kyiv and Cherkasy regions.

In the harvest of current year it is involved 53.5 thousand combines. It has been in addition involved almost 6 thousand units of high-efficiency.

As for July 29, agrarian producers bought 450.5 tones of diesel that makes 95% from demand for a harvest and 129.6 thousand tons of gasoline (also 95 %).

As it was informed, 12.3 million in hectares of early grain and leguminous cultures and rape, including 6773 thousand hectares of wheat, 3772 thousand hectares of barley, 283 thousand hectares of a rye, 292 thousand hectares of an oats, 270 thousand hectares of peas and 858 thousand hectares rape have to be gathered.