Sowing 2025: the rate of sowing sugar beet and sunflower has halved

Published 2025년 4월 14일

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Due to adverse weather conditions and rapid cooling, the sowing of sugar beets and sunflowers in Vinnytsia Oblast has significantly slowed down, being more than twice as slow as the previous year. Although early grains and legumes have been sown on time, the sowing of sugar beets is 28% less than forecasted, with only 18.4 thousand hectares sown as of April 11, compared to 42 thousand hectares at the same time last year. The sowing of sunflowers is also behind schedule, covering only 6 thousand hectares, which is just 2% of the projected area.

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Weather conditions have slowed down the pace of sowing sugar beets and sunflowers in Vinnytsia Oblast, they are more than twice as slow as last year. An Ukrinform correspondent was informed about this in the Vinnytsia Oblast Agricultural Department. “While we sowed early grains and legumes on time, we are significantly behind in terms of sugar beets and sunflowers. In particular, due to weather conditions and the rapid cooling caused by them. In general, last year, on the corresponding date, the areas sown with these crops were at least twice as large,” the Oblast Agricultural Department reported. The department noted that as of April 11, sugar beets in Vinnytsia Oblast were sown on an area of 18.4 thousand hectares, which is 28% less than the forecast. At the same date last ...

Source: Agravery