Ukraine starts sowing early spring crops

11:51, 25.02.2016 1 min read

The Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry of Ukraine has reported that as of February 24, early spring crops had been sown on 1,700 ha in Odesa region and on 900 ha in Mykolaiv region.

The ministry said in a press release that out of 7.1 million ha with winter crops sprouts are seen on 6.5 million ha (92%), and crops on 4.3 million ha (67%) are in good and satisfactory state and crops are weak on 2.2 ha (33%), and crops on 80 ha were killed.

The ministry said that 8% (600 ha) did not form sprouts, and Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions have the largest number of these fields.

Out of 665,100 ha with winter rapeseeds sprouts were seen on 586,900 ha, including crops in good and satisfactory stage on 389,400 ha (66%), weak crops on 192,400 ha (33%) and crops on 5,200 ha (1%) were killed.

Around 10% of crops (68,200 ha) did not form sprouts, and Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv and Kharkiv regions have the largest number of these fields.