KYIV. April 13 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Early grains have been sowed on an area of 2.1 million hectares, or 86% of the forecast, the press service of the Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food has stated, with reference to minister Oleksiy Pavlenko.
“The largest areas were sowed in Dnipropetrovsk region (203,800 hectares or 81% of the forecast), Zaporizhia region (180,200 hectares or 90%), Kherson region (145,800 hectares or 84%), Odesa region (138,200 hectares or 101%) and Mykolaiv region (135,000 hectares or 91%),” he said.
In addition, sugar beets were sowed on an area of 216,000 hectares, or 81% of the forecast, sunflower on 805,000 hectares (16%). The sowing of maize (254,000 ha, or 6% of the forecast) and soybeans (34,000 ha, or 2% of the forecast) has been also started.
As reported, with reference to the ministry and preliminary data from the regions, the entire area under agricultural crops in all categories of farms for the 2016 harvest is expected to reach the level of 2015 at 26.7 million hectares.
