The area under winter wheat decreased by 3.9%, according to Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation

The sown area under winter wheat for the 2023 harvest previously decreased by 3.9%, to 16.044 million hectares, under spring wheat increased by 1.8%, to 13.01 million hectares, follows from the materials of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation presented at the conference "Where is the margin 2023". The head of the Ministry of Agriculture Dmitry Patrushev, during a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with members of the Russian government, announced the day before the results of the sowing campaign in 2023: spring sowing was carried out on an area of 57 million hectares, of which more than 31 million hectares are under grain crops. According to the presentation presented at the conference by Roman Nekrasov, Director of the Department of Crop Production, Mechanization, Chemicalization and Plant Protection of the Ministry of Agriculture, the sown area under spring wheat amounted, according to the forecast, to 13.01 million hectares (plus 1.8% by the end of ...