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.
