OREANDA-NEWS. Ukraine by September 29 harvested a total of 1.616 million tons of sunflower seeds from 1.127 million hectares, with the average crop yield being 14.3 centners per hectare, the Agriculture Ministry reports.

Moreover, farmers harvested 700,000 tons of maize from 178,000 hectares or 7% of the target. The average crop yield is 39.1 centners per hectare.