Sowing Online 2019/20: spring crops planted on 1.3 mln ha

Sowing campaign in Ukraine
Photo by: Latifundist.com

As of Apr. 2, early spring grain, leguminous and industrial crops in Ukraine are sown on an area of 1.3 mln ha or 9% of the projected areas. Provided by the data of the Sowing Online 2019/20 Project, sown areas by spring crops are as follows:

• wheat: 101 thou. ha, 77% of the planned 132 thou. ha;
• barley: 714 thou. ha, 65% of 1.1 mln ha;
• oats: 77 thou. ha, 81% of 95 thou. ha;
• peas: 299 thou. ha, 76% of 396 thou. ha;
• corn: 37 thou. ha, 0.06% of 5.4 mln ha;
• sugar beet: 24 thou. ha, 12% of 200 thou. ha;
• sunflower: 91 thou. ha, 1.5% of 6.2 mln ha.

Odesa (150 thou. ha), Kharkiv (120 thou. ha) and Kherson (108 thou. ha) regions have progressed most in spring sowing campaign so far.

The project was created in partnership with BASF.