As of October 7, agricultural enterprises collected 1.6 million tons of sugar beet.
This follows from a statement by the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, the Ukrainian News agency reports.
Sugar beet was harvested in an area of 33,400 hectares, or 19% of the forecast.
The average yield is 471 centners per hectare.
Farmers also collected 26.4 million tons of grain and leguminous crops from an area of 6.9 million hectares (62% of the forecast) with a yield of 38.4 tons per hectare.
Farmers collected sunflowers on an area of 1.3 million hectares (28%), and threshed 2.6 million tons of seeds at a yield of 20 tons per hectare.
Soy was harvested on an area of 211,000 hectares (14%), and 505,000 tons were threshed with a yield of 23.9 tons per hectare.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, in September, farmers began sowing winter cereals.
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