Grain harvest in Ukraine could total 59.1 mln tonnes in 2015 – ministry

14:54, 18.08.2015 1 min read

The Economic Development and Trade Ministry of Ukraine has forecast that the grain harvest in Ukraine in 2015 could total 59.1 million tonnes.

"It is projected that due to the reduction of fields with spring crops (as of June 1, 2015 the decline is 6.4%) with the small reduction of grain yield (a decline of 0.6% as of August 1, 2015) at the end of the year the pace of plant growing would slightly worsen (the grain harvest would be 59.1 million tonnes compared to 63.9 million tonnes in 2014)," the ministry said on its website.

The ministry said that cattle breeding is steadily declining due to companies in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) zone reaming inactive.