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Harvesting in Ukraine is progressing well with 34% of the planted area cut as of July 17, according to the Agriculture ministry.

To date 11.5 MMT of grains have been harvested on 4.4 M hectares, it says.

The wheat harvest has so far amounted to 6.4 MMT off 2.3 million hectares, which is 35% of the planted area, with an average yield of 2.74 MT/hectare.

That's a slight improvement on last week, and now implies a finial wheat crop of around 18.25 MMT, that would still be almost 30% down on last year's production of 25.9 MMT.

An estimated 38% of the nation's barley crop has been cut, producing 4.7 MMT off 1.8 million hectares.