Ukraine: In the Kirovohrad region, farmers doubled the area under winter rapeseed

Canola Seed & Rapeseed

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Ukraine

Published Sep 23, 2022

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Kirovohrad Region farmers have doubled the area under winter rapeseed compared to last year, and winter wheat has decreased. Valeriya Furmanova, head of the regional department of agro-industrial development, reported this, writes Suspilne. According to her, farmers sowed 120% more winter rape than last year. Sowing of crops is already being completed, so far 90% of the planned areas have been sown. They began to sow winter wheat. In the economy of the Novoukrainsky district, sowing began in mid-August.

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"We sowed wheat on September 8, the grain has already sprouted. They are provided with fuel and lubricants. They have doubled in price compared to the prices before the invasion, said agronomist Oleksiy Rodin. — This will affect the cost price of winter crops. If fuel used to be 25 hryvnias, now it is 50 hryvnias. This year we delivered winter wheat at a price of approximately 5,000 hryvnias per ton. That year the price was 8 thousand. Since this is bread, the price should be at least 10,000" Valeriya Furmanova added that state support programs for farmers are working during martial law. According to her, Kirovohrad Oblast is in the top five for attracting loans for field work. "Including preferential ones. State support works, they provide assistance per hectare of arable land that is in use. For one hectare - 3,100 hryvnias. This applies mainly to small and small producers who have up to 120 ...

Source: Superagronom