3.6 million hectares of winter cereals have already been sown in Ukraine

The sowing of winter crops is still ongoing. So far, 3.6 million hectares have been sown, or 76% of the forecast.

Wheat was sown on 3.1 million hectares, or 79%.

Barley - 390 thousand hectares, or 58%.

Rye - 74 thousand hectares, or 86%.

During the previous week, 836,000 hectares of winter crops were sown for grain. Among the leaders are the agrarians of the Mykolaiv Region and Odesa Region, they planted nearly 150,000 hectares each.

Kyiv Oblast and Chernihiv Oblast completed the sowing of winter grain crops, 141,000 and 131,000 ha were sown there, respectively. Ternopil Region, Khmelnytskyi Region and Poltava Region are close to completion.

Agricultural producers of all regions of Ukraine completed the sowing of winter rape, which was sown on 999,000 hectares, or 104% of the forecast.

However, according to the schedule of the sowing campaign, we can see a significant lag from last year's indicators.

Ukraine winter wheat planted areas, ha (Source - Argus media)

The situation is similar with barley. However, there are also crops that are not lagging behind last year's crop area, in particular rape and buckwheat.

IC UAC according to the MAPFU