The largest crop of peas in the last 3 years was collected in Ukraine in the 2024 season — due to the expansion of areas

In the current year, Ukraine harvested the best crop of peas in the last three years, mainly due to the increase in the sown area, reports UkrAgroConsult. In Ukraine, peas of the 2024 harvest were harvested on an area of 212,000 hectares, which is 40% more than in 2023. 465,000 tons were threshed with an average yield of 2.19 t/ha, which is inferior to the long-term average and last season, when the pea yield was recorded at 2.46 t/ha. The main areas in terms of the volume of the harvested pea crop were: In the Odesa and Mykolaiv regions, the area under peas doubled compared to 2023. "According to the farmers, the yield is highly dependent on the rains in late April and May. They also note that peas in a crop rotation leave behind nitrogen and give a significant increase in yield for subsequent crops," says Maksym Kharchenko, grain market and logistics analyst at UkrAgroConsult. In 2023/24, the main importers of Ukrainian peas were: "Pea prices are high this season. One of the ...