Ukraine: Areas under sunflower in the 2024 season will be 5.8 million hectares — preliminary forecast

The areas under sunflower in 2024, most likely, will not change significantly and will amount to 5.8 million hectares, which is almost at the level of 2023. This is reported by APC-Inform. It is noted that analysts came to this conclusion during a survey of farmers. The majority of respondents who are engaged in the cultivation of this oil plant plan to leave the area under it without significant changes (87% of respondents). And those who plan to reduce or increase them usually noted that this will happen at the expense of the area under rapeseed. "Under favorable weather conditions, the sunflower harvest may amount to 13.9 million tons (+1% by 2023), which is still inferior to the pre-war indicator," APC-Inform analysts note. The sown area under rapeseed in 2024 will most likely decrease due to the "dry" autumn, as a result of which some of the farmers decided to abandon the sowing of winter oilseeds. However, a little more than half of agricultural producers who sowed winter ...