Ukrainian farmers have completed the spring sowing campaign and started harvesting the 2024 crop

According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, almost 13 million hectares of spring crops have been sown.

In particular, 7.2 million hectares of oilseeds and almost 5.6 million hectares of cereals and legumes were sown, which as of June 9, 2023, amounted to 6.2 million hectares:

• corn — 3,928 thousand hectares (100.4% of the forecasted area) compared to 4.02 million hectares last year,
• barley — 783 thousand hectares (95.7%) compared to 810 a year ago,
• wheat — 252.7 thousand hectares (102.6%) compared to 271,
• oats — 163.7 thousand hectares (100.7%) compared to 146,
• peas — 162.5 thousand hectares (101.6%) compared to 138.5,
• buckwheat — 100.8 thousand hectares (80.7%) compared to 119.7,
• millet — 69.7 thousand hectares (81.8%) compared to 49.1 thousand hectares a year ago.

Among oilseeds, the following were sown:

• sunflower — 5,189.8 thousand hectares (98%) compared to 5.284 million hectares last year,
• soybeans — 2,032.3 thousand hectares (102%) compared to 1.77 million hectares a year ago.

Sugar beets were sown on an area of 250.1 thousand hectares (97%) compared to 213.1 thousand hectares last year.

Winter wheat sown for the 2024 harvest amounted to 4.2 million hectares compared to 4.4 million hectares in 2023. Winter barley was sown on 470 thousand hectares compared to 536 thousand hectares, and winter rapeseed — 1.164 million hectares compared to 1.396 million hectares last year.

In Ukraine, the grain harvest began unusually early, with farmers in the Mykolaiv region being the first to start. This was reported by the owner of the Southern Agrarian Export Company (SAEC), Yuriy Kormyshkin.

"Each year, the harvest starts earlier. Mykolaiv region, as always, is the first. Today, the harvest of winter barley has begun in the fields of one of the company's farms, LLC SP SAEC. The combines are in the field. God bless us to calmly harvest the crop. We thank our defenders for the opportunity to continue working on our native land. Together to Victory!", Kormyshkin wrote.