KYIV, March 27 – The State Statistics Service has confirmed grain harvest in 2018 at 70 million tons, the Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry of Ukraine reported.

"The final report of the State Statistics Service on harvest in 2018 confirmed overcoming the historic for Ukraine grain production in weight after threshing – 70.057 million tons with a yield of 4.74 tons per hectare. In addition, the gross harvesting of corn, soybean and sunflower and the yield of sugar beet were the highest in the history," Deputy Minister of Agricultural Policy and Food Volodymyr Topchiy said.