Early spring crops sowed on 45,000 ha in Ukraine – minister

14:47, 02.03.2016 1 min read

Taking into account good weather conditions, sowing of early spring crops has been started in three regions of Ukraine and 45,000 ha has been sowed or 2% of the target, Agricultural Policy and Food Minister of Ukraine Oleksiy Pavlenko wrote on his Facebook page late on Monday.

The minister said that spring barley was sowed on 34,000 ha or 2% of the target, oats on 11,300 ha (6%) and peas on 10,000 ha (6%).

Crops on 23,900 ha (14% of the target) were sowed in Odesa region, 11,300 ha (6%) in Kherson region and 9,600 ha (6%) in Mykolaiv region.

According to tentative data from the regions, it is planned to sow crops for the 2016 harvest at the level of 2015 – 26.7 million ha.