In 2018, the pace of growing salads, zucchini, pumpkin and sweet pepper has significantly increased in Ukraine, UkrAgroConsult, represented by a representative of Olga Morozova, reports.
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The production of traditional vegetables included in the “borsch set”, as well as tomatoes, onions and cucumbers, is also increasing.
Most of all, Ukraine grows tomatoes - 24-25%, cabbage - 17-18%, cucumbers - 10-11% and onions - 9%.
Niche crops such as asparagus remain a promising export vector of production. So far, the volume of asparagus cultivation is small and amounts to approximately 1 thousand tons.
The total number of vegetables harvested in 2018 is 9.43 million tons, which exceeds the data for 2017 and the two seasons before it by 133.5 thousand tons.
Recall that in 2017, Ukrainian farmers collected 9.3 million tons of vegetables. Open field vegetables accounted for 8.7 million tons, which is 94% of the total. Greenhouse vegetables produced 0.56 million tons, or 6%. At the same time, the yield of greenhouse plants was 4 times higher and amounted to 929.1 c / ha. The largest yield was observed for tomatoes (2.26 million tons) and cabbage (1.6 million tons). Such statistics were published by the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine.
