Ukraine keeps winter wheat sowing area forecast at up to 5 mln ha, deputy minister says

Ukraine has so far kept the forecast of sowing winter wheat for 2025 at an area of 4.5 to 5 million hectares despite the drought that has affected almost all regions, the first deputy farm minister said on Wednesday.

Agricultural forecasters say the topsoil is almost completely dry in most regions where it has not rained for weeks.

“Our forecast of 4.5 to 5 million hectares remains valid. We hope that in the second half of September and early October the weather will allow us to realise these plans,” the ministry quoted the first deputy minister, Taras Vysotskiy, as saying.

Farmers sowed 4.7 million hectares of winter wheat for the 2024 harvest. Winter wheat generally accounts for 95% of overall Ukrainian wheat output each year.

In recent years, Ukraine has often experienced a lack of soil moisture during autumn sowing, but farmers are hoping that a wet and mild winter and favourable weather in the spring will allow for a good harvest.

Ukrainian farm ministry data on Tuesday showed that farmers had sown 340,300 hectares of winter wheat as of Sept. 16. Farmers had sowed 514,800 hectares of winter wheat as of Sept. 19, 2023.

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