OREANDA-NEWS. On 27 August 2009 Ukraine agriculture Minister Yuriy Melnik told journalists at a press conference that Ukrainian agricultural producers have completed their grain harvesting campaign and have collected 36.7 mln mt of grain. Melnik said the average yield was 2.84 mt/ha (vs. 3.40 mt/ha in 2008). Ukrainian producers planted a total of 27 mln ha with agricultural crops in 2009 (12.9 mln ha with spring crops).

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