Ukraine: In Poltava Oblast, 20,000 hectares of corn remain in the fields

Due to the power outage, the farmers of the Poltava region were unable to dry their crops, and therefore 20,000 hectares of corn remain in the fields. Serhiy Frolov, director of the regional department of agro-industrial development, told about this, reports Suspilne. It is noted that in 2022, the region had the largest areas of corn crops in Ukraine. Due to the fact that some of the corn crops have not yet been harvested, the amount of tillage will be increased in Poltava Oblast in the spring. "Having practically the largest crops of corn, it was very difficult to collect it. Frequent scheduled and unscheduled outages (electricity — ed.) did not allow it to be dried and brought to marketable condition. There were 529,000 corn crops in the region. Today, we have the problem that in the spring we need to raise fens, to process an additional 300,000 hectares. About 20,000 hectares of corn in the field still remain to be harvested," says Serhiy Frolov. According to the director of ...