According to Ministry of Agrarian Policy , sowing is underway in Ukraine: in total, almost 98% of the area projected for spring wheat has already been sown.
Thus, the following oblasts completed the sowing of spring wheat: Vinnytsia, Volyn, Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Zakarpattia, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Rivne, Ternopil, Khmelnytsky, Cherkasy and Chernivtsi. In general, sowing of spring cereals and legumes was completed by 75% of last year’s figures.
As of May 19, 2022, the projected sown areas of the main spring crops for the 2022 harvest in the territory controlled by Ukraine are 14,158.4 thousand hectares, which is 2,757.9 thousand hectares less than last year (16,916 , 3 thousand hectares).
According to operative data, the sowing of spring crops is carried out by 23 regions of Ukraine, except for Luhansk, where fighting is taking place in almost the entire territory.
Spring wheat sowing is 98% of the previous year.
So all categories of farms are sown:
– spring wheat 188.6 thousand hectares;
– spring barley 927.5 thousand hectares;
– spring rape 28.4 thousand hectares;
– oats 156.8 thousand hectares;
– peas 124.8 thousand hectares;
– buckwheat 37.4 thousand hectares;
– millet 32.1 thousand hectares;
– corn 4 170.2 thousand hectares;
– sugar beets 182 thousand hectares;
– sunflower 3 940.3 thousand;
– soybeans 982.7 thousand hectares;
– potatoes 1,074.6 thousand hectares.
According to the State Statistics Service, sowing of winter crops for grain for the 2022 harvest was carried out on an area of 7.6 million hectares, which is 0.3 million hectares less than in 2021, including:
– – winter wheat and triticale sown 6.5 million hectares;
– 969 million hectares of barley have been sown.
In addition, winter rapeseed was sown on an area of 1 million 414 thousand hectares, which is 442 thousand hectares more than in 2021.