Projected harvest 2014, taking into account all factors, including removing the Crimea and military operations in the area of Donetsk and Lugansk regions, is 64, 421 million tons of grain, said at a press conference on Wednesday, the Minister of agrarian policy and food of Ukraine Ihor Shvaika.
so, the growth in comparison with last year's harvest may be about 2%. Before the agriculture Ministry has estimated the grain harvest in Ukraine in 2014 at the level of 60 million tons. In mid-August, the Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that the country will miss 15% of the crop due to the fighting in the East. Besides, then he gave a forecast for the grain harvest in 55 million tons.
" today we harvested area 14, 682 thousand hectares. It is smaller (in comparison with the area in 2013 as amended), the difference falls in the space occupied Crimea, as well as separate areas of Donetsk and Lugansk regions where harvesting is not possible. The calculation for the current year of grain and leguminous crops is 64, 421 million tons ", - quotes the Minister of the Ukrainian news Agency.
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