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.
As of September 27, Ukrainian agricultural producers sowed the main winter crops on an area of 709 thousand hectares (15% of the forecast of 4.56 million hectares), 298 thousand hectares were sown over the past week on September 20-27, according to the website of the Ministry of Agrarian politics and food on Tuesday.
According to the agency, 16% of the planned area, or 622 thousand hectares (+258 thousand hectares for the week of September 20-27), barley – 65 thousand hectares (+33 thousand hectares, 10% of the area), rye – 27 thousand hectares (+11.7 thousand hectares, 31% of the area).
At the same time, it is specified that the most intensive sowing of winter grains is carried out in the Chernihiv region, where 33.1 thousand hectares, or 37% of the forecast, are sown.
In addition, the sowing of winter rapeseed has been fully completed in Ukraine, the final area under this crop amounted to 961 thousand hectares.
Thus, by September 27 in Ukraine, a total of 1.67 million hectares were sown with winter crops, or 18.8% of the last year’s figure. 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.
The area sown with winter grains for the harvest of 2020 amounted to 7.6 million hectares, which is 0.2% more than the area for the harvest of this year, the State Statistics Service has reported.
According to the agency, the following crops were sown: winter wheat on 6.4 million ha (0.6% less than in 2019), winter barley one 1 million ha (3.9% more), and rye one 135,000 ha (16.7% more).
In addition, the area under winter rapeseeds for the next year’s crop amounted to 1.3 million hectares (0.3% more from 2019).
As reported, with reference to the information-analytical portal of the agro-industrial complex of Ukraine, as of December 10 Ukraine had threshed 75.2 million tonnes of grain and leguminous crops from an area of 15.2 million hectares with the average yield being 4.95 tonnes/ha, exceeding the result of grain harvest for the whole of 2018, when the gross harvest amounted to 70.1 million tonnes.
