Sowing Online 2019/20: sunflower campaign 86% complete

Sowing campaign in Ukraine
Photo by: Latifundist.com

As of May 7, early spring grain, leguminous and industrial crops in Ukraine were sown on an area of 13.34 mln ha or 86% of the planned 15.56 mln ha. Spring wheat, barley, oats, peas and sugar beet campaigns are complete.

Provided by the data of the Sowing Online 2019/20 Project, sown areas by spring crops are as follows:

• wheat: 184.37 thou. ha, 100% of the planned 184.56 thou. ha;
• barley: 1.51 mln ha, 100% of 1.516 mln ha;
• oats: 185.35 thou. ha, 100% of 186.36 thou. ha;
• peas: 281.64 thou. ha, 100% of 282.7 thou. ha;
• corn: 4.66 mln ha, 86% of 5.39 mln ha;
• buckwheat: 12.26 thou. ha, 16% of 75 thou. ha;
• millet: 16.24 thou. ha, 21% of 78.01 thou. ha;
• sugar beet: 206.68 thou. ha, 99% of 209 thou. ha;
• sunflower: 5.35 mln ha, 86% of 6.2 mln ha;
• soybean: 942.64 thou. ha, 65% of 1.45 mln ha.

Agricultural producers of Zaporizhzhya (319 thou. ha), Dnipropetrovsk (218 thou. ha) and Poltava (200 thou. ha) regions have reached the highest rates of planting this week.

The project was created in partnership with BASF.