Sowing Online 2020/21: winter rapeseed sowing 76% completed
16 October 2020, 06:00
Winter rapeseed sowing in Ukraine for the harvest 2021 has progressed to 76%, having covered 768.7 thou. ha of the planned 1.01 mln ha.
As provided by the data of the Sowing Online 2020/21 project, winter rapeseed planting has been completed by seven regions of the country: Volyn, Zhytomyr, Ivano-Frankivsk, Poltava, Rivne, Ternopil, and Khmelnytsky. Zakarpattya region will not sow winter rapeseed this season.
The largest areas of winter rapeseed in the 2020/21(September-August) season are projected in the following regions:
| Region | Projected area, thou. ha | Fact, thou. ha |
| Odesa | 150 | 55, 37% |
| Dnipropetrovsk | 105 | 84, 80% |
| Zaporizhzhya | 81.2 | 42.28, 52% |
| Kherson | 77.3 | 62.31, 81% |
| Ternopil | 61.1 | 61.1, 100% |
The project was created in partnership with BASF.
