Sowing Online 2019/20: soybean planting started

As of Apr. 9, 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: 112.3 thou. ha, 85% of the planned 132.5 thou. ha;
• barley: 854.2 thou. ha, 78% of 1.1 mln ha;
• oats: 86.5 thou. ha, 91% of 95 thou. ha;
• peas: 346.6 thou. ha, 88% of 396 thou. ha;
• corn: 290.1 thou. ha, 5.4% of 5.4 mln ha;
• sugar beet: 117.4 thou. ha, 56% of 200 thou. ha;
• sunflower: 861.8 thou. ha, 14% of 6.2 mln ha;
• soybean: 23.8 thou. ha, 1.7% of 1.4 mln ha.

Cherkasy (237 thou. ha), Khmelnytsk (208.5 thou. ha), Vinnytsya (176 thou. ha) and Mykolaiv (168 thou. ha) regions have progressed most in spring sowing campaign so far.

The project was created in partnership with BASF.