As of November 25, 2025, Ukrainian farmers have sown 6.429 million hectares of winter crops, or 98.1% of the projected production area, while on November 26 last year, 6.14 million hectares were sown.
According to data from the Ministry of Economy, Environment, and Agriculture published on its website, Ukrainian farmers have already sown 5.34 million hectares of winter grain crops, compared to 5.06 million hectares a year ago.
At the same time, 4.69 million hectares (4.38 million hectares) were sown with winter wheat, 586,100 hectares (611,100 hectares) with barley, and 66,300 hectares (68,600 hectares) with rye.
Chernivtsi and Cherkasy regions are among the leaders in grain crops. Grain sowing has already been completed in Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Poltava, Rivne, and Chernihiv regions, according to the report.
According to the report, as of November 25, rapeseed had been planted on an area of 1.084 million hectares (last year – 1.08 million hectares), which is 96.5% of the projected area. Farmers in all regions have virtually completed sowing.
The Ministry of Economy previously published forecast figures for the area sown with winter crops for the 2026 harvest. Ukrainian farmers are expected to reduce the area sown with winter crops by 5.1% to 5.368 million hectares. At the same time, the area under winter wheat will be reduced by 4.4% to 4.778 million hectares, winter barley by 2.7% to 576,100 hectares, and winter rapeseed by 5.5% to 1.114 million hectares. At the same time, winter rye crops will increase by 7.6% to 69.3 thousand hectares.
