83% of the projected area sown with winter wheat in Ukraine

In Ukraine, the sowing of winter crops is being completed, with 5.35 million hectares sown as of October 28, of which grain crops - 4.21 million hectares or 80.8% of the projected area and rapeseed - 1.13 million hectares, which exceeds the forecast, the Ministry of Economy reports.

 

In terms of crops, on the specified date the following were sown:

• wheat and triticale – 3.75 million hectares or 82.6% of the forecast,
• barley – 390 thousand hectares (65.7%),
• rye – 72.5 thousand hectares (94.5%),
• rapeseed - 1.13 million hectares (102.7%).

 

Winter rapeseed was sown by farmers in 23 regions, with the largest areas sown in Odessa region (180 thousand hectares), Vinnytsia (125 thousand hectares) and Mykolaiv (98 thousand hectares) regions.

 

Winter grains are most widely sown in the following regions:

• Mykolaiv region – 492 thousand hectares (393 thousand hectares of wheat and triticale, 97 thousand hectares of barley),
• Dnipropetrovsk region – 432.6 thousand hectares (385.2 thousand hectares of wheat and triticale),
• Kirovohrad region – 379.9 thousand hectares (348.4 thousand hectares of wheat and triticale),
• Odessa region – 330 thousand hectares,
• Poltava region – 278.6 thousand hectares,
• Khmelnytskyi region – 215.2 thousand hectares,
• Cherkasy region – 214.9 thousand hectares.

 

While the sowing of winter rapeseed has already been completed, the sowing of grain crops is still ongoing, with only 2/3 of the planned area sown with winter barley.