Ukrainian farmers sowed 2.4 million hectares of spring crops

UkrAgroConsult

The Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine reports that 2 million 546 thousand hectares of grain and pulses crops have already been sown on the territory controlled by Ukraine. Of which, in particular:

• corn – 1 189 thousand hectares;
• barley – 761.5 thousand hectares;
• wheat – 223.3 thousand hectares;
• peas – 159.2 thousand hectares;
• oats – 146.6 thou hectares.

Over the past week, farmers sowed 492.9 thou hectares of grains and pulses.

Most of all:

• In Kyiv region – 27.7 thou hectares of wheat, 40.6 thou hectares of barley, 5.1 thou hectares of peas and 4.3 thou hectares of oats.
• In Dnipropetrovsk region – 21.1 thou hectares of wheat, 49.9 thou hectares of barley, 14.07 thou hectares of peas, 0.9 thou hectares of oats;
• In Ternopil region – 18.9 thou hectares of wheat, 63.6 thou hectares of barley, 3.6 thou hectares of peas and 5.1 thou hectares of oats.
• In Khmelnytsky region – 14.8 thou hectares of wheat, 59.1 thou hectares of barley, 2.6 thou hectares of peas and 2.5 thou hectares of oats;
• In Zhytomyr region – 14.7 thou hectares of wheat, 17.5 thou hectares of barley, 2.85 thou hectares of peas and 21.1 thou hectares of oats;
• In Vinnytsia region – 11.5 thou hectares of wheat, 55 thou hectares of barley, 6 thou hectares of peas and 1.1 thou hectares of oats.

Sunflower was planted on 1,996.9 thou hectares, soybeans – 208.6 thou hectares, sugar beets – 238.7 thou hectares. Agrarians in Vinnytsia, Poltava, Khmelnytsky, Bukovyna and Chernihiv regions have completed sowing sugar beet.

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