Peach yield average dropped by more than 70 percent this year

By: STA Date: 2025. 08. 28. 10:30

The harvest of cereal crops was almost complete by August 13, 2025, with 1 million 477 thousand hectares of the planned 1 million 478 thousand hectares harvested. Producers harvested a total of 7.9 million tons of grain, of which 68.7 percent was wheat and 20.5 percent was barley. The average yield of cereal crops was the lowest in the past five years – with the exception of rye – in 2022.

Winter wheat was produced on 66.1 percent of the total area of cereal crops in the 2024/2025 marketing year. The harvested area of winter wheat was 976.3 thousand hectares, with a yield of 5.4 million tons, with an average yield of 4.2 percent lower than last year, and a national average of 5.6 tons/hectare. Durum wheat was grown on about 70 thousand hectares, and farmers had completed the harvest by the reporting date. The average yield was 4.5 percent lower, and the harvested quantity (349.1 thousand tons) was 32.2 percent higher than last year. A total of 1.6 million tons of winter and spring barley was harvested from a total area of 295.8 thousand hectares, which was 2.5 percent larger than last year.

The average yield of triticale was 4.3, of oats 3.2, of rye 3.4 tons per hectare

The area of winter rapeseed decreased by 16.9 percent to 144.7 thousand hectares, its yield fell by 5.1 percent to 409.7 thousand tons, but its average yield increased by 15.8 percent to 2.9 tons/hectare compared to 2024. The average yield of spring fodder peas was 2.5 tons/hectare, and its production area amounted to 3.1 thousand hectares in 2025. The green pea harvest was fully completed by August 13. The average yield increased by 13.3 percent compared to the previous year and reached 4.7 tons/hectare. The area sown with green peas increased by 13.5 percent, and the total yield by 28.9 percent compared to last year. Sweet corn was 27.3 percent ready nationwide at the time of the report.

Sour cherry picking was completed by the day of the report

The national average sour cherry yield was 26.9 percent lower than last year, at 3.9 tons per hectare. The apricot yield was around 7.3 thousand tons, only a quarter of the total yield in 2024, with an average yield of 1.5 tons per hectare. Peach picking was 79.3 percent at the time of the report, with an average yield of 71.3 percent lower than the previous year, at 3 tons per hectare.

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