Russia: Agrarians of Khmelnytsky region switch to beans

In the Khmelnytsky region, there is a decrease in the sowing of winter grain crops. The area under winter wheat was reduced by 30 thousand hectares to the previous figures. Oleg Omelyanyuk, Director of the Department for the Development of Industry and Agroindustrial Complex of the Khmelnytsky Regional State Administration, told AgroPortal.ua about this. “The decrease in winter wheat sowing is due to the weather conditions of the last year, in particular, drought and late sowing of predecessors, which did not have time to thresh in a certain period of time, which slowed down the sowing of winter crops,” says Oleg Omelyanyuk. He notes that the decrease in the area of winter crops is compensated by spring crops, in particular corn for grain, sunflower and soybeans, the sowing area of which has been increased ...