As of the 1st of August, grains and legumes (without maize) were mowed and threshed on 6.88 mln hectares acreage that totals 54% from the whole sowing areas, according to APK-Inform. According to the data of State Statistics Committee, 17.46 mln tonnes were milled, down 9.5% from the previous year index.

56% from the total volume of grains falls to the share of wheat (9.7 mln tonnes), its gross harvest reduced by 30% as compared to August, 1, 2005.

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The average yield capacity of grains in Ukraine totals 2.54 tonnes per hectare (down 0.15 tonnes per hectare from last year).

Winter wheat has the highest yield capacity - 2.74 tonnes per hectare (3.03 tonnes per hectare last year), winter barley - 2.46 tonnes per hectare (2.24 tonnes per hectare), spring barley - 2.32 tonnes per hectare (against 2.04 tonnes per hectare).