As reported in the press service, the average yield of grain crops is 39.4 kg/ha. While the wheat is gathered 26.4 million tons from the area of 6.16 million ha (99% from forecast), barley - 9,8 mln tons from 2.86 mln ha (99%), rye - 373 thousand tons with 138 thousand hectares (97%), oats - 481 thousand tons, 188 thousand hectares (90%), peas - 236 thousand hectares (99%) in the amount of 763 thousand tons. In addition, harvested 1.1 mln tonnes of winter rape with 434 thousand hectares (96% of the forecast).

The press service noted that the highest grain yield was recorded in Vinnytsia (55,3 kg/ha), Khmelnytskyi (53.7 q/ha), Cherkasy (52 t/ha) and Kyiv (49,9 kg/ha) regions.

According to forecasts of Ministry of agrarian policy, the gross yield of grain and leguminous crops in Ukraine in 2016 will amount to 61 million tons.

It is known that earlier the Ministry of agriculture of USA (USDA) raised its forecast for the harvest in Ukraine in the season 2016/2017 (July 2016-June 2017) to 64.1 million tons (4.5% more than the July forecast).

In the past year, according to the state statistics service, Ukrainian farmers harvested 60.1 million tons of grain and bean, which is 5.8% less than the record figure in 2014 - 63,8 million tons.

Last season (June 2015-July 2016) Ukraine exported record volume of grain - 39.4 million tons, breaking the record 2014-2015 MG, the amount of which was 34.8 million tons.