By October 18, Ukrainian agricultural producers sowed the main winter crops on an area of 2.8 million hectares (58% of the forecast of 4.5 million hectares), including 954 thousand hectares were sown over the past week on October 11-18 , according to the website of the Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food on Tuesday.
According to the agency, 61% of the planned area, or 2.5 million hectares, was sown with wheat, 265 thousand hectares (39% of the area) with barley, and 69 thousand hectares (81% of the area) with rye.
At the same time, it is specified that the most intensive sowing of winter crops is carried out in the Dnepropetrovsk and Odessa regions, in each of which over 100 thousand hectares of winter crops were sown per week.
In addition, 999 thousand hectares were sown with winter rapeseed in Ukraine, which is 104% of the previously planned figures.
Thus, by October 18, a total of 3.8 million hectares, or 42.8% of the last year’s figure, were sown with winter grains and oilseeds in Ukraine.
In 2021, Ukraine allocated 8.87 million hectares for winter crops, including 6.66 million hectares for wheat, 1.02 million hectares for barley, 160.6 thousand hectares for rye, and 1.03 million hectares for rapeseed.
