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Ukraine: Agrarian sector in proximity to conflict - 24 Feb. to 30 May 2022: Risk to vegetables production

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Ukraine is one of the top three producers of fruits and vegetables in Eastern Europe In the 2020-2021 market year, vegetables accounted for 72.5% of Ukrainian agricultural exports to Europe. Ukrainian vegetable exports make up 0.5% of the world market. Ukraine exports vegetables to 96 countries. Export of vegetables from Ukraine was carried out by 400 exporters in the world market. Due to the escalation of the conflict, logistics and trade infrastructure have been disrupted, which complicates the export of vegetables. In 2020, Ukraine ranked 19th globally among top legume exporters, and was in the top 5 of exporters for tomatoes, onions, frozen, dried and boiled, fresh and chilled vegetables. In 2021, the sowing area of vegetables was 1.7 million hectares.

The gross harvest of vegetables was 231.7 million tons, with the following average yields: potatoes - 16.6 tons/hectare, open field vegetables - 20.8 tons/ hectare, and melons - 8.1 tons/ hectare. In 2021, potatoes made up 38.5% of land cultivated with vegetables in Ukraine. The largest harvest areas for potatoes were in Vinnytska, Zhytomyrska and Lvivska oblasts (23% of total potato harvest zones). The oblasts with the largest harvest areas for open field vegetables were Lvivska, Khersonska, Dnipropetrovska, Kyivska and Kharkivska oblasts (40.6%). There was military action in all of these areas except the Lvivska oblast. Khersonska oblast hosted 37% of the overall national harvest area for melons (Figure 1).