Ukraine's spring sowing campaign is 90% complete – Ministry of Agrarian Policy
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On June 5-10, Ukraine plans to complete its spring sowing campaign. At this moment, the plan for 13 million hectares has been fulfilled by almost 90%.
Ukrainian farmers sowed 5 million 278 thousand hectares of grain and pulses, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy reports.
The sowing of early spring crops, such as spring wheat, barley, peas, and oats, has already been completed. Farmers have also finished sowing sugar beets. Their volume increased compared to last year.
More than enough sugar will be produced, the ministry assures.
The sowing plan, set at 13 million hectares, has already been fulfilled by 85%, "even closer to 90%," the officials say.
Ukrainian farmers sowed 585.2 thousand hectares of grain and pulses, most of them in the Chernihiv region (94.5 thousand hectares). Poltava region has planted the most spring crops, which equals 626 thousand hectares.
Sowing of late crops, such as sunflower, soybeans, and also, partially, corn, is currently underway.
This year, the share of oil crops, namely soybeans, sunflower, and rapeseed, increased. This is primarily due to cost logistics, accordingly, the change of crop rotation to crops that have a higher price per ton, per unit of output, the ministry stressed.
Since the beginning of the full-scale war, Russian forces have taken about 4 million tons of grain from Ukraine, according to Ukrainian Grain Association.
The continuation of the Black Sea grain initiative, which resumed its operation after another round of negotiations, did not prompt Russia to lift the blockade of the incoming fleet at the Pivdenny (South) port.
