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Drought pushed down this year’s national grain harvest by 13% yoy, to 65.4 million tons

Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Drought pushed down this year’s national grain harvest by 13% yoy, to 65.4 million tons

Drought pushed down this year’s national grain harvest by 13% yoy, to 65.4 million tons, Igor Petrashko, minister of Economic Development and Trade, announced yesterday. The fall ended two years of record harvests – first 70 million tons in 2018, then 75 million tons in 2019. This year, Ukraine’s top volume crop, corn fell 17% yoy, to 29.8 million tons. Wheat, the second largest crop, fell by 10%, to 25.1 million tons.

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