Early grains sowing Ukraine completed
3 May 2019, 13:00
As of May 2nd, 2019, early spring grain and leguminous crops sowing is completed on an area of 2.1 million hectares.
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine reports the following indicators of spring planting campaign in Ukraine:
- millet — 0.07 million hectares (11 pct);
- corn — 2.1 million hectares (45 pct);
- soybean — 0.35 million hectares (19 pct);
- sunflower — 3 million hectares (53 pct);
- sugar beet — 0.21 million hectares (87 pct);
- buckwheat — 0.004 million hectares.
The forecast area of crops in 2019 is 27.7 million hectares, remaining at the previous year's level.