Ukrainian agrarians are completing the sowing season: last week they sowed 14 thousand hectares of grain and leguminous crops, compared to 133.3 thousand hectares during the previous week and 193.5 thousand hectares a week earlier, the Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food reported on Friday.
According to its data as of June 15, the area under spring cereals and leguminous plants reached 5.618 million hectares, which is 3% higher than in March forecast.
Sown area is 9.3% lower than last year: as of June 9, 2022, according to reports of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, they accounted to 6196.6 million hectares.
The gap is formed mainly due to the most popular crops – corn, spring barley, sown by 13,5% and 14,9%, respectively, less than last year’s and amount to 4.014 and 810.0 thousand hectares.
At the same time, corn is 11% ahead of the Ministry of Agricultural Policy forecast of 3.618 million hectares, while barley was sown on 78% of the expected 1.041 million hectares.
Sown millet is exceeded last year’s figures, with 49.2 thousand hectares of area, but it is 82% of this year’s expected area.
At the same time areas under other crops are already more than a year ago. It concerns spring wheat – 271.1 thousand hectares (41.9%), pea – 138.5 thousand hectares (5.7%), buckwheat – 119.7 thousand hectares (59%).
Agrarians of 14 regions (Vinnitsa, Zakarpattya, Ivano-Frankovsk, Kirovograd, Lviv, Odesa, Poltava, Rivne, Sumy, Ternopol, Khmelnytsky, Cherkasy, Chernihiv and Chernivtsi regions) have sown spring crops, as the Ministry of Agriculture informed.
As compared to prewar 2021, spring cereals and leguminous crops are 24.7% lower, sunflower – 17.4%, sugar beet – 6.2%, while the soybeans are 27.6% higher.
Mingaropolitiki informed about the end of sowing of sugar beets, which amounted to 213.1 thousand hectares, or 97% of a plan. The areas under sunflower and soybeans are lagging behind the plan by 94% and 96% respectively, amounting to 5283.8 and 1773.5 thousand hectares.
As it was informed, winter wheat sowing this season amounted to 4166 thousand ha (-834 thousand ha to the previous one), winter barley – 536 thousand ha (-255 thousand ha), rape – 1374 thousand ha (+110 thousand ha).
According to the forecast of the Ministry of late March, the area of grain and leguminous crops in 2023 will amount to 10.24 million hectares, which is 1.4 million less than in 2022, while under oilseeds they will grow by 0.92 million hectares – to 8.85 million.
