Russia: In the Stavropol Territory, spring crops are sown on 215 thousand hectares

In total, it is planned to occupy 809 thousand hectares with spring crops in the region Spring sowing is underway in the Stavropol Territory. According to the regional Ministry of Agriculture, by March 19, spring crops were sown on 215.3 thousand hectares, or 26.6% of the planned area. Including early spring grains (barley, oats and peas) occupy 203.7 thousand hectares, or 70.4% of the plan area. The leaders of spring sowing in the region are the Krasnogvardeisky municipal district (32.2 thousand hectares), Petrovsky (25.2 thousand hectares) and Ipatovsky (19.0 thousand hectares) urban districts. Grachevsky, Trunovsky and Kochubeevsky municipal districts have completed sowing of early spring crops. In total, Stavropol farms will have to sow 809.4 thousand hectares of spring crops during spring field work, including 416.3 thousand hectares of grain and leguminous crops. The need for seeds of spring grain crops is 53 thousand tons, 70 thousand tons of seeds have been tested, or ...