Farmers Sow 0.7 Million Hectares Of Grain

As of April 14, agricultural enterprises sowed 722,400 hectares of grain and leguminous crops for the 2023 harvest.

This is stated in the message of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

In particular, 436,000 hectares of spring barley, 142,800 hectares of spring wheat, 84,700 hectares of peas, 53,600 hectares of oats, 700 hectares of millet and 700 hectares of corn were sown.

Over the past week, 102,000 hectares of grain and leguminous crops have been sown.

Farmers of the Vinnytsia, Volyn, Rivne, Ternopil, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy Regions started sowing sugar beet (32,700 hectares sown).

Sunflowers are sown by agricultural producers of the Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, Ternopil, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, and Chernivtsi Regions (37,200 hectares sown).

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food Forecasts a decrease in the harvest of grain and leguminous crops by 16.6% or 8.8 million tons to 44.3 million tons in 2023 compared to 2022.

At the same time, the gross production of oil crops is expected to increase to 19.2 million tons against 18.2 million tons the previous year.