Ukraine sowed 191.1 thousand hectares of spring wheat

UkrAgroConsult

Sowing in Ukraine is coming to an end. In general, almost 99.5% of the area projected for spring wheat has already been sown. The sowing of all spring crops of Vinnytsia, Volyn, Zakarpattia, Zaporizhia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Odesa, Poltava, Ternopil and Chernivtsi regions has been completely completed, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine reports.

In general, sowing of spring cereals and pulses was completed by 81.7% of last year’s figures.

Starting next week, the harvest of winter crops will begin in some regions.

As of June 9, 2022, the projected sown areas of the main spring crops for the 2022 harvest in the territory controlled by Ukraine are 14,163.4 thousand hectares, which is 2,752.9 thousand hectares less than last year (16,916.3 thousand ha).

According to the operative data of the structural subdivisions of the regional state administrations, which ensure the implementation of functions on agro-industrial development, the sowing of spring crops is carried out by 23 regions of Ukraine, except Luhansk, where fighting is taking place practically on the whole territory.

So all categories of farms have sown:

• spring wheat 191.1 thousand hectares;
• spring barley 951.2 thousand hectares;
• spring rape 33.4 thousand hectares;
• oats 159.2 thousand hectares;
• peas 130.6 thousand hectares;
• buckwheat 74.9 thousand hectares;
• millet 48.5 thousand hectares;
• corn 4,627.3 thousand hectares;
• sugar beets 180.6 thousand hectares;
• sunflower 4,685.8 thousand hectares;
• soybeans 1,211.8 thousand hectares;
• potatoes 1 104.2 thousand hectares.

According to the State Statistics Service, sowing of winter crops for grain for the 2022 harvest was carried out on an area of ​​7.6 million hectares, which is 0.3 million hectares less than in 2021, including:

• 6.5 million hectares of winter wheat and triticale have been sown,
• rye sown 109 thousand hectares,
• barley sown 969 million hectares.

In addition, winter rapeseed was sown on an area of ​​1,414,000 hectares, which is 442,000 hectares more than in 2021.

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