Ukraine legume harvest: Updated numbers of 2022 and prospects for 2023

On June 16, the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine published the 2022 legume harvest results: The 2022 harvested area by major crop, y/y: – Beans: 37.0 K ha (-24% of 2021), – Chickpeas: 3.1 K ha (-64%), – Peas: 125.7 K ha (-48%), – Lentils: 2.8 K ha (-48%). The military actions did not impact directly on bean production, only indirectly as the economy performance deteriorated totally in 2022/23. Cultivated areas in Donetsk, Kharkiv and Kherson oblasts decreased almost to zero, but not many beans were grown there before the war, as the climate of north-western Ukraine is more suitable for lentils vegetation. Unexpectedly, Khmelnytskyi oblast lost the lead (the area decreased from 12 K ha in 2021 to 5 K ha in 2022), but other oblasts retained the 2022 area approximately at the same level. Chickpeas suffered most of all, chickpeas area decreased particularly in Odessa region – by 4 times y/y. In 2022 the leader in chickpea production was Poltava region (0.7 K ha). Lentil acreage ...