ROSTOK-HOLDING to sow 50 thou. ha

The farms of ROSTOK-HOLDING Group are fully prepared for spring field works and intend to sow the following crops on the area of about 50 thou. ha: corn, soy, sunflower, barley and peas, the company reports.

"In spring we plan to sow about 50 thou. ha. In general, the cultivated area this year will reach 56 thou. ha," said Yuri Lebedev, Chief Agronist of ROSTOK-HOLDING Group.

The Group plans to produce the following crops:

• corn — 22.5 thou. ha (2017: 21.5 thou. ha);
• soybean — 9.6 thou. ha (2017: 5.2 thou. ha);
• sunflower — 9.6 thou. ha (2017: 12.4 thou. ha);
• barley — 5.2 thou. ha (2017: 3.3 thou. ha);
• peas — 1.2 thou. ha (2017: 1.0 thou. ha).

The area under feed crops and out of crops amounts to about 1.4 thou. ha.

In general, corn occupies 40% in the structure of crops, soybean — 17%, sunflower —17%, winter wheat — 12%, spring barley — 9%, feed and other crops — 5%.

Reference: in autumn 2017, the Group sowed 6.8 thou. ha of winter wheat (autumn 2016: 7.7 thou. ha).