22-23 mln ha will be sown in Ukraine this season – forecast

crops: 570 thousand hectares of winter barley and 1.1 million hectares of winter rapeseed, about 70 thousand hectares of winter rye and 4.8 million hectares of wheat. “These figures may still be somewhat revised due to the complexity of collecting information,” the specialist added. He assured that even in a difficult year, Ukraine will harvest a sufficient harvest for food security and export. “If we grind 40 centners/hectare (about 20 million tons), and even if half of it is food wheat, that’s almost 9 million tons (and Ukraine needs about 3.5 million tons of it per year). That is, we will have a three-year supply – of course, if the Russians do not once again break the elevators, railway, etc.,” explained Pavlo Koval. Regarding the spring wedge, the expert is sure that one of the basic crops will be sunflower, as well as corn and soybeans. The amount of spring barley will be insignificant – about 500 thousand hectares (this is the crop that has decreased the most in crops). ...