Ukraine completed planting campaign of sunflower seed

As of May 30, Ukrainian agrarians planted sunflower seed throughout the areas of 5.21 mln ha, or 99.6% of the plan, as opposed to 4.59 mln ha on the same date last year, declared the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine.

In particular, Dnipropetrovsk (512 thsd ha), Zaporizhye (509 thsd ha) and Kirovohrad oblasts (508 thsd ha) became the TOP-3 regions with the largest planted areas under the reporting oilseed.