Sowing season 2025: farmers have sown over a million hectares of spring grains
Kyiv • UNN
Ukrainian farmers have sown 1,058.6 thousand hectares of spring grains, which is 18.5% of the plan. Barley has been sown the most – 612.2 thousand hectares, and the leaders in terms of sowing rates are Odesa and Ternopil regions.
In Ukraine, during the 2025 sowing season, more than one million hectares of spring grains have already been sown, or more than 18.5% of the planned area, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy reports, UNN writes.
As of April 11, 2025, farmers in all regions of Ukraine have sown 1,058.6 thousand hectares of spring grain and leguminous crops. Corn has begun to be sown in the Zaporizhzhia region
Currently, as indicated, the largest area of crops is barley – 612.2 thousand hectares. 141.1 thousand hectares of spring wheat, 182.8 thousand hectares of peas, 106.1 thousand hectares of oats, 0.02 thousand hectares of corn have already been sown.
Regions-leaders in terms of sowing:
- Odesa region: 107.2 thousand hectares (wheat – 6.1 thousand hectares, barley – 33.5 thousand hectares, peas – 59.1 thousand hectares, oats – 1.4 thousand hectares);
- Ternopil region: 88.1 thousand hectares (wheat – 14 thousand hectares, barley – 64.1 thousand hectares, peas – 4.1 thousand hectares, oats – 5.3 thousand hectares);
- Poltava region: 86.3 thousand hectares (wheat – 4.5 thousand hectares, barley – 69.1 thousand hectares, peas – 9.6 thousand hectares, oats – 3.1 thousand hectares);
- Khmelnytskyi region: 84.9 thousand hectares (wheat – 10 thousand hectares, barley – 69.8 thousand hectares, peas – 2.6 thousand hectares, oats – 2.5 thousand hectares);
- Mykolaiv region: 75.6 thousand hectares (wheat – 4.5 thousand hectares, barley – 43 thousand hectares, peas – 27.5 thousand hectares, oats – 0.6 thousand hectares).
Sunflower was sown on 51.5 thousand hectares.
Sugar beets are sown on an area of 76 thousand hectares.
Soybeans – on an area of 4.5 thousand hectares.
Supplement
In general, in 2025 it is planned to sow about 5.7 million hectares of spring grain and leguminous crops, which corresponds to the level of 2024. The main feature of the new season will be an increase in the area under spring wheat to 227.5 thousand hectares. Such changes in the structure of crops correspond to the stable demand for wheat from processing enterprises and exporters, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy noted.
