Sowing Online 2021/22: winter wheat planting 18% completed

As of September 20, winter crops planting in Ukraine was completed on 1.32 mln ha, 17% of the projected area (7.84 mln ha).

Sowing progress as of the reporting date:

• winter wheat: 1.22 mln ha, 18% of 6.68 mln ha
• winter barley: 51 thou. ha, 5% of 1.02 mln ha
• winter rye: 48.88 thou. ha, 30% of 160.65 thou. ha

Winter rapeseed sowing was 86% completed on 880.59 thou. ha of the planned 1.03 mln ha. This oilseed crop sowing was finalized in Vinnytsya, Volyn, Poltava, Rivne, Sumy, Ternopil, Khmelnytsky, Chernihiv, Cherkasy and Chernivtsi regions.

The new crop progress in Ukraine as of Sept. 16 came to 45.7 mln t of grains and legumes on 10.4 mln ha. The average yield made up 4.39 t/ha.