KYIV. Aug 23 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Mriya agroholding has started sowing winter crops for 2017 harvest and allocated around 93,000 ha for them.
The company said in a press release on Monday that as of August 21, over 50% of the planned volume of winter rapeseed had already been sown. The area allocated for this crop is approximately the same as last year – 20,000 ha.
Mriya is preparing the soil for other winter crops, primarily winter wheat, which will be sown on 70,000 ha. In addition, almost 1,000 ha will be sown with winter barley.
The company will also introduce winter rye into its crop rotation for the first time this year.
“We plan to sow the northern portion of our land with rye. The soil there is rather flinty, which makes it impossible to achieve good yields for other crops, for example wheat. Overall, we plan to sow 2,000 ha with rye,” Mriya COO Viktor Kukharchuk said.
Mriya plans to finish sowing winter rapeseed and move on to winter wheat by the end of August. The harvesting of early grain crops is also nearing its end; the company has already threshed over 320,000 tonnes of grain harvested on 84,000 ha.
