Spring crops planting in Ukraine 90% completed

Early spring crops are 90% planted in Ukraine as of May 12, the Agrarian Ministry reports. Spring wheat areas have been 10-15% expanded y-o-y in Volyn, Vinnytsya, Kirovohrad and Dnipropetrovsk regions.

23 regions in Ukraine have joined the sowing campaign for the 2022 harvest. Most of the territory of Luhansk region is currently a war zone which makes it impossible and extremely dangerous for producers to start sowing.

Spring crops planted on the reporting date (thou. ha):

• wheat: 187.5
• barley: 918.8
• rapeseed: 26.7
• oats: 156.7
• peas: 123.9
• sugar beet: 181.4
• sunflower: 3,290.6
• soybean: 728.6
• buckwheat: 12.2
• millet: 22.5
• corn: 3,238.5
• potatoes: 1,013.8

For the country's 2022 crop, winter grains and rapeseed were sown on 7.6 mln ha, 0.3 mln ha more from the 2021 sown area:

• wheat and triticale: 6.5 mln ha, 0.3 mln ha less from 2021
• rapeseed: 1.414 mln ha, 442 thou. ha more
• barley: 969 thou. ha, 163 thou. ha less
• rye: 109 thou. ha, 63 thou. ha less