OREANDA-NEWS. July 05, 2013. At the Government’s session Prime Minister Mykola Azarov informed that by now the agrarians had gathered 6 million tons of grain from the area in 2.6 million hectares – twice more than in the last year.

“In fifteen regions and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea grain growers have gathered early grain and leguminous crops from the area of 2.6 million hectares – twice more than last year. Already today the agrarians, despite the complicated weather conditions, have threshed over 6 million tons of grain. And it is just the beginning. But such a start can absolutely be called optimistic,” Mykola Azarov has said.

He congratulated grain farmers of Odessa and Mykolayiv regions who had already harvested over one million of grain and continue the activity. The economies of Dnipropetrovsk region are approaching a million limit.