Ukraine as of Friday, April 6, had sowed 138,000 hectares with grain and leguminous crops, or 6% of the forecast, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food has said.
A large-scale audit of products sold in Ukraine, conducted by the state service of Ukraine on food safety and consumer protection, said the head of Department Vladimir Lapa, misleading April 5, the "Ukrainian news".
According to the State Statistics Committee, cereal and pulse stocks in Ukraine totaled 19.03 MMT as of March 1, 2018, i.e. 0.9% less than on the same date last year (19.21 MMT).
Groats production in Ukraine rose in January-February 2018 versus the same time period in 2017.
It’s not a stretch to say that Ukraine’s 40 million hectares of farmland is one of the world’s biggest opportunities in agriculture. Spreading from the grassy steppe of the nation’s east to the Carpathian forests in the west, Europe’s ancient breadbasket could feed one billion people—if used well.
Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman has ordered relevant ministries to develop a resolution on supporting Ukrainian fertilizer producers, in particular on ensuring the provision of Ukrainian agrarians with mineral fertilizers during the spring sowing campaign.
According to the Ag Ministry’s information, as of March 02, winter rapeseed had emerged on 98.6% of its planted area of 1009.8 Th ha.