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Photo: Ukraine Public Broadcaster Harvesting
Although this year’s harvest in the Chernihiv region started later due to weather conditions, it had positive consequences for the farmers. This was reported to Ukraine Public Broadcaster by the owner of the farm “Naporivske”, Hryhorii Tkachenko.
“For the grain group, especially for winter wheat, it was a rather favorable year. Rainfall occurred purposefully, and there was no significant break between precipitation. Also, a favorable condition for growing winter wheat was that the spring was prolonged, it was not rushed and was not characterized by high temperatures,” the farmer boasted.
The harvesting began last week. During this time, about 150 hectares of winter wheat have been threshed out of a total area of 300 hectares. Hryhorii Tkachenko says that combine operators manage to thresh 30-40 hectares per day, from which they collect an average of 150 tons of grain.
The situation with the realization of the harvest is not pleasing, the farmer says. Due to the closure of Black Sea ports, grain prices have decreased.
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“Yesterday, we sent a truck to ‘Stolychnyi Mlyn’, and they refused to take the wheat. We drove around various business entities, just to sell it somewhere. And we managed to sell wheat for 5,000 hryvnias per ton. Last year, the price started at 9,200–9,300 hryvnias per ton. Today it is 5,200. That’s how much prices have dropped. Such a pricing policy was only in 2022. The situation is very difficult now. And in connection with such actions: both the blocking of seaports and the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran, yesterday we bought diesel fuel at a price of 92 hryvnias per liter,” Hryhorii Tkachenko said.
Currently, wheat is being sold to Ukrainian bakery enterprises.
Alla Husarova, SuperAgronom.com
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