By KYIV. May 13 (Interfax-Ukraine) – During the sowing season 2022, Ukraine sowed 9.9 million hectares of land with the main agricultural crops, which is 68.7% of the 14.4 million hectares planned for the current season, including 2.8 million hectares, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food announced on Friday.
According to the data published on its website, as of May 12, the area under sunflower crops totaled 3.29 million hectares (66% of the 4.93 million hectares planned for 2022), corn – 3.24 million hectares (67% of 4.85 million hectares). hectares), spring barley – 918,800 hectares (89.7% of 1.02 million hectares), spring wheat – 187,500 hectares (98.8% of 189,600 hectares), oats – 156,700 hectares (95.7% of 163,600 hectares), peas – 123,900 hectares (85% of 145,700 hectares).
In addition, the sown area under potatoes is 1.01 million hectares (85.2% of 1.19 million hectares), soybeans – 728,600 hectares (58.1% of 1.25 million hectares), sugar beet – 181,400 hectares (87.7% of 206,900 hectares), spring rapeseed – 26,700 hectares (89.5% of 29,800 hectares), millet – 22,500 hectares (36.1% of 62,300 hectares), buckwheat – 12,200 hectares (14.9% of 81,600 hectares).
"The agrarians of Ukraine, in spite of everything, are sowing. As a result, almost 90% of the areas predicted for spring crops of the early group have already been sown. In Volyn, Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad and Dnipropetrovsk regions, spring wheat is sown on 10-15% more areas than last year," the ministry said.
In addition, in 2021, winter crops were sown for the 2022 harvest on a total area of 7.7 million hectares, including 6.5 million hectares of winter wheat, 1 million hectares of barley and 0.16 million hectares of rye.
