Areas under sunflowers in Ukraine's Mykolaiv region will be tripled

This year, the areas under sunflower in the Chokova FG in the Mykolaiv region will be three times larger than last year, due to a decrease in grain crops. The head of the farm, Volodymyr Chokov, said this, The Ukrainian Farmer magazine writes. "Under winter crops, we have 2/3 of the area - some barley, rapeseed and wheat. I plan to allocate the remaining areas to sunflower, because this is one of the most profitable crops today. Yes, the logistics of wheat, rape and sunflower cost the same, and the selling price of these crops is different, so we decided to sow more sunflower this year to stay afloat," the farmer said. Due to the increase in the price of fertilizers and the decrease in profitability, we are forced to reduce the rates of fertilizer application by 30–40% for all crops. Last year, crops were fertilized in full, because fertilizers were purchased even before the war, so, according to Volodymyr Chokov, in one season with reduced rates of fertilizers, the soil will not ...