Sowing season 2024: Ukrainian farmers have already sown more than 2 million hectares of grain
Kyiv • UNN
According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, Ukraine has planted more than 2 million hectares of spring grains and legumes, including corn, barley, wheat, peas, and oats.
Ukraine has already sown more than 2 million hectares of spring grains and legumes, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy reported on Friday, UNN reports.
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"2 million 053.4 thousand hectares of grain and leguminous crops have already been sown on the territory controlled by Ukraine," the ministry said.
Of these, reportedly, in particular:
- corn - 748.7 thousand hectares;
- barley - 741.5 thou hectares;
- wheat - 204.7 thousand hectares;
- peas - 157 thousand hectares;
- oats - 136.6 thousand hectares.
Over the past week, agrarians sowed 792.6 thousand hectares of grain and legumes, as indicated.
Sunflower was sown on 1 395.9 thousand hectares. Sugar beet has been planted on 223.7 thou hectares. Sowing of early grain and sugar beet has been completed in Vinnytsia, Poltava, Khmelnytsky and Chernihiv regions.
Agrarians in 15 regions are sowing soybeans, 116.3 thousand hectares have already been sown.
Sowing of buckwheat and millet has begun in Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Khmelnytsky, Kherson and Chernihiv regions.
