Sowing Online 2020/21: spring crops 100% planted in Ukraine
18 June 2021, 17:10
As of June 17, spring grain and leguminous crops were planted on 7.49 mln ha in Ukraine, which makes up 100% of the planned, the data of the Sowing Online project show.
Planted areas in Ukraine as of the reporting date:
- wheat: 176.02 thou. ha or 100% of the planned 176.6 thou. ha
- barley: 1.35 mln ha, 97% of 1.39 mln ha
- oats: 193.83 thou. ha, 100% of 194.05 thou. ha
- peas: 241.89 thou. ha, 103% of 235.4 thou. ha
- sugar beet: 227.14 thou. ha, 100% of 226.9 thou. ha
- corn: 5.35 mln ha, 100% of 5.33 mln ha
- sunflower: 6.46 mln ha, 101% of 6.4 mln ha
- soybean: 1.39 mln ha, 99% of 1.4 mln ha
- buckwheat: 77.66 thou. ha, 98% of 79.6 thou. ha
- millet: 105.07 thou. ha, 90% of 116.8 thou. ha
Grains bulk yield in Ukraine in 2021 is forecasted 8.8% higher YoY by the National Scientific Center Institute of Agrarian Economics.
USDA in its June report put the forecast for wheat production in Ukraine in 2021/22 at 29.5 mln t, and corn at 37.5 mln t.