Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 23 ISSUE 3
Written by Nataliia KOVALENKO, Svitlana YEHOROVA

The purpose of the article is multi-year research and analyze of the dynamics of cultivated areas, production volumes and yield of cereal crops in Ukraine, in the context of world cereals production and export. Ukraine's prospects on the world cereals market have been established thanks to the formation of ways to adapt the production of wheat, barley and maize to the conditions of climate change. Graphically illustrated data of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine on cultivated areas, production volumes and yield of cereal crops in Ukraine, data of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on world cereals production and export. It was established that the production of cereal crops in Ukraine during 1990–2021 increased by 69% – from 51.0 to 86.0 million tonnes thanks to an increase in maize production almost 9 times – from 4.74 to 42.1 million tonnes due to the growth of its of cultivated areas by 4.5 times – from 1.23 to 5.52 million hectares. During 2008–2022, the world production of cereals increased by 32%, and the world export of cereals increased by 76%. At the same time, the transformation of the structure of cultivated areas, climatic changes and the war of the rf against Ukraine led to the yield of cereal crops being much lower than the potentially possible level. For effective cereals production, a number of adaptation measures are proposed to overcome the negative impact of climate change, which consist in the use of innovative technologies in environmental and genetic research, which ensure the cultivation of high-yielding varieties and hybrids of cereal crops that are resistant to drought, diseases and pests, as well as the optimization of cultivated areas with the introduction of scientifically based crop rotations and organic technologies.

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