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3.5 million hectares under winter grain crops are sown in Ukraine — Sowing Online 2017/18
2 October 2017, 16:12
Photo by: Latifundist.com
As of September 29, 3.5 million hectares of land under winter crops are sown in Ukraine, which makes up 48% of the forecast.
According to the data of the Latifundist.com project Sowing online 2017/18, sowing of winter wheat is carried out on the area of 3.3 million hectares or 53% of the forecast territories.
The agrarians sowed winter rye on 96 thousand hectares out of 161 thousand hectares of forecast indicators.
Winter barley is sown on the area of 114 thousand hectares, or 12% of the forecast (total area — 926 thousand hectares).
Agrarians also continue to plant rapeseed, despite exceeding the forecast areas — 102% or 795 thousand hectares (forecast — 777 thousand hectares).
As of September 29, agrarians prepared 7.5 million hectares or 93% of the projected areas for sowing winter crops.
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