Ukraine, the land and its people : $b an introduction to its geographyRudnytskyi, Stepan
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Ukraine, the land and its people : $b an introduction to its geography
Rudnytskyi, Stepan
Ukraine; Ukrainians
Barley is raised mostly in the Southern Ukraine, where it takes up 28% of the farm land
in Tauria, 26% in Katerinoslav, 21% in Kharkiv and Kherson, 18% in Bessarabia, 17%
in the Don regions. The chief districts of production are Katerinoslav (9.2 million
q.), Kherson (7.9 million q.), and Kuban (6.9 million q.) Barley is also an important
export of the Southern Ukraine. In other regions of the Ukraine less barley is raised,
e.g., in Poltava 13%, in Polissye and in Galicia 9%. The barley production of the Russian
Ukraine amounts to 49 million q., therefore 61% of the Russian production of barley.
The importance of the remaining grains is, of course, comparatively slight. Oats take up on the average 16% of the farm land in the Ukraine (21% in the Polissye region,
17% in Galicia, 16% in Chernihiv, 11% in Kharkiv and Poltava, 5% in Southern Ukraine).
The total production is 28 million q. Kiev, Volhynia and Poltava take first rank.
As a bread cereal, oats are of some importance only among the Carpathian people of
the Ukraine. The Eastern Galician oats production amounts to 4.5 million q. Spelt is raised very seldom and then only along the western borders of the Ukraine. Buckwheat is of the greatest importance in the Chernihiv country (about 27% of the farm area
and a yield of 0.8 million q. a year), and Kiev, Volhynia, and Poltava each produce
almost as much. In other regions of the Ukraine, buckwheat is raised much less frequently
(7% in Polissye, 2% in Galicia), in the southern part of the Ukraine almost none at
all. Millet is raised chiefly in the Government of Kiev (10% of the farm-land, [265]2.3 million q. annual production) and Voroniz (9%). In Kharkiv and Poltava the amount
of land used for millet is only 4%, in Galicia 1%. In Kherson the cultivation of the
Chugara-millet has been begun. The chief region of Indian corn cultivation is Bessarabia, where this crop takes up 32% of the area of cultivation.
Indian corn is also grown in the adjacent regions of Podolia (7%), Kherson (3%), Galicia
(3%), and the Bukowina, playing an important part in feeding the population in these
regions. The chief regions of corn production are Podolia (1.8 million q.), the Ukrainian
part of Bessarabia and Kherson (each 1.1 million q.) and Southeastern Galicia (0.9
million q.).
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