1.4 million hectares of sunflower, 0.8 million hectares of barley and 0.7 million hectares of corn have already been sown in Ukraine

UkrAgroConsult

Despite military actions and threats in our country, sowing continues in Ukraine. Thus, according to the latest data, the sowing of spring crops is carried out by 23 regions of Ukraine, except for Luhansk, where fighting is taking place in almost the entire territory.

Vinnytsia, Volyn, Kirovohrad, Rivne, Khmelnytsky and Cherkasy regions have completely completed the sowing of spring crops of the early group.

As of April 28, 2022, all categories of farms have already been sown:

• spring wheat 175.8 thousand hectares;
• spring barley 838.5 thousand hectares;
• spring rape 21 thousand hectares;
• oats 144.4 thousand hectares;
• peas 116.3 thousand hectares;
• buckwheat 2.6 thousand hectares;
• millet 10.8 thousand hectares;
• corn 774.8 thousand hectares;
• sugar beets 167.4 thousand hectares;
• sunflower 1,367.8 thousand hectares;
• soybeans 127.2 thousand hectares;
• potatoes 648 thousand hectares.

It will be recalled that according to the State Statistics Service, sowing of winter crops for grain for the 2022 harvest was carried out on an area of ​​7.6 million hectares, which is 0.3 million hectares less than in 2021, including:

• 6.5 million hectares of winter wheat and triticale have been sown,
• rye sown 109 thousand hectares,
• barley sown 969 million hectares.

In addition, sowing of winter rape was carried out on an area of ​​1 million 414 thousand hectares.

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