OREANDA-NEWS. August 08, 2013. Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov has congratulated agrarians on good yield and thanked for the good work at a meeting of the Government: more than 30 million tons of grain have already harvested this year. In particular, almost 22 million tonnes of wheat threshed, more than 7 million tonnes of barley and more than 600 000 tons of rye.

“I sincerely congratulate you and thank the farmers of Odesa, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhya regions, each of which harvests more than 2 million tons of grain cops as well as agrarian producers of Mykolayiv, Donetsk, Vinytsya, Kirovograd and Poltava regions, where more than 1.5 million tons of grain cops were harvested, and agrarians of Cherkasy, Kherson, Khmelnytsk, Kyiv and Sumy regions where more than 1 million tons of grains were harvested,” PM said.

He stated that Ukraine expects grain production after completion in the amount of more than 57 million tons. This is 11 million tons up than last year. And at least 75% of grain is food grain.

However, Mykola Azarov stressed that this year's harvest-work has been carried out rhythmically; agrarians were fully equipped with farm machinery, necessary materials and so on
“These are things of a past when the harvest was a battle for the yield, when headquarters were created to save the situation, and the Government took immediate decisions to provide [agrarians] with fuel or farm machinery, Mykola Azarov noted. - However, we have created a system that operates without manual control in recent years and the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food provides all seasonal work in agriculture by market instruments timely.”