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Ukraine crops harvest rises 13% y/y as of November 1. ​Ukrainian farmers harvested 66.7mmt in crops (13.2% higher y/y) from 14.1mn ha (92% of total land sowed) in 2019, while the average crop yield increased 8.4% y/y to 4.73 t/ha as of November 1, the Agrarian Ministry reported the same day. Farmers harvested 26.7mmt of corn (15.6% more y/y) from 3.9mn ha (or 78% of sowed land), while the corn yield slid 2.7% y/y to 6.86 t/ha in 2019. The harvest results of key oilseed crops diverged. In particular, the sunflower yield rose 8.9% y/y to 2.44 t/ha and its total harvest increased 6.1% y/y to 14.0mmt. The soybean yield decreased 8.7% y/y to 2.32 t/ha, while its total harvest dropped 12.2% y/y to 3.6mmt.
Despite the vaunted fertility of Ukraine’s black earth, farmland rents generally are lower than in neighboring countries.​ According to the recent Rating poll, 30% of owners say they earn $40-120 per hectare per year; 23% earn $120-200, and 21% earn more than $200. By contrast, Eurostat reports that the annual farmland rent in Poland is $259 per hectare and $268 in Bulgaria.
The largest farming country in Europe, Ukraine has 30.4mn hectares of privately owned farmland, divided into 13.9mn land plots, ​the State GeoCadaster reported on Nov. 1. In addition, the state owns 10.2mn hectares of farmland. The State GeoCadaster plans to complete an inventory of state-owned land by the end of this year.
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5G mobile internet will come to Ukraine by 2022, ​Alexander Shelest, deputy minister of Digital Transformation, predicts in an interview with LIGA.tech. He says mobile company executives predict a rollout of fifth-generation, or 5G,
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