As of April 21, agricultural enterprises sowed 1 million 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, spring wheat - 169,100 hectares; spring barley - 557,400 hectares; peas - 110,200 hectares; oats - 81,700 hectares; corn - 53,400 hectares; buckwheat - 270 hectares; millet - 1,700 hectares.
A total of 278,400 hectares of grain and leguminous crops were sown last week, agrarians of the Poltava Region are leading with 83,500 hectares.
Farmers of 10 region began sowing sugar beets: Vinnytsia, Volyn, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Lviv, Poltava, Rivne, Ternopil, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy (54,400 hectares were sown).
Sunflowers are sown by farmers of the Dnipropetrovsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Poltava, Rivne, Sumy, Ternopil, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmelnytskyi Regions, Bukovyna, and Chernihiv Region (137,300 hectares sown).
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, Ukraine plans to sow more than 13 million hectares of agricultural land this year.
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food predicts 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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