OREANDA-NEWS. August 11, 2011. In southern regions of Ukraine harvesting of late cereal cultures has begun. 1% of buckwheat and 5 % of millet has been already gathered. The Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine informed about it today during a briefing in the building of the Cabinet of Ministers Mykola Prysyazhnyuk.

According to the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, buckwheat is gathered on the area 4 thousand hectares that makes 1 % to the forecast; it is threshed 4.1 thousand tons of grains at productivity 10.2 cwt/ hectares. Millet is threshed on the area 8.4 thousand hectares (5 % from the forecast). "As a whole we plan to gather 370-380 thousand tons of buckwheat. Thus internal consumption at us is made 160-180 thousand tons in grain", - Mykola Prysyazhnyuk informed.

Harvesting of early grain has already almost finished. As of August 9, early grain and leguminous cultures are threshed on the area 10.8 million hectares that makes 96% to the forecast. It is threshed 32.8 million tons of grain at productivity of 30.4 cwt/hectares.

As for The Minister, grain-harvesting campaign of this year has passed at a high level, productivity - far better, and the quantity of the collected crop - is more.

Also preparation for sowing winter grain on the crop’s eve of 2012 is proceeding. As of August, 9, the ground under crop of winter crops is prepared on the area 6 million in hectares, i.e. on 60% of the areas.