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Corn harvest in 2022 will be significantly worse than in 2021, final data will be clear in Feb – Solsky
KYIV. Jan 16 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Corn of the 2022 crop in Ukraine remains unharvested from 15% of the area, therefore, due to the wintering of part of the crop in the fields, its quality will be significantly worse than in the more favorable 2021.
Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Mykola Solsky said at a briefing in Kyiv on Monday, it will be possible to judge the final quality of the 2022 crop in February, after it is harvested.
"Day by day, its (unharvested corn) quality is deteriorating. Of course, farmers, elevator operators and traders know how to work with it and equalize quality indicators. However, compared to the successful last year (2021), the quality will be much worse. It will be possible to say to what extent at the end of February, because significant volumes of corn remain in the fields," the minister said.
Solsky recalled that by the beginning of last winter, corn had not been harvested from a third of the area, while now this figure is about half as much, but still it is still too much.
"We have a much worse harvest this year, because for a number of reasons we have entered into a protracted harvest, which is quite difficult in itself: strong temperature fluctuations prevent farmers from working and harm grain quality. I think the percentage has been lost, depending on agrarians, maybe from a few percent to 15%. It depends on the variety of corn, the humidity with which it "entered" at the beginning of frost, on the current temperature fluctuations," the minister specified.
