As of April 7, agricultural enterprises sowed 620,500 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, 126,700 hectares of spring wheat, 376,600 hectares of spring barley, 73,100 hectares of peas, 41,300 hectares of oats, and 200 hectares of millet were sown.
It is noted that the farmers of the Ternopil Region have sown the largest volume of grain and leguminous crops - 112,100 hectares.
Farmers of the Vinnytsia, Volyn, Rivne, Ternopil, Khmelnytskyi and Cherkasy Regions started sowing sugar beet (25,600 hectares were sown).
Farmers of the Mykolaiv, Odesa, Ternopil, Khmelnytskyi and Chernivtsi Regions started sowing sunflower (21,000 hectares were 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.
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