In Ukraine, farmers have started sowing winter crops but hindered by the heat

Ukrainian farmers have started autumn sowing and have already sown 484.1 thousand hectares, in turn, farmers of Vinnytsia, Lviv and Bukovyna have started sowing winter crops. This was reported by the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. In total, 37.9 thousand hectares were sown. Farmers of eight oblasts sow winter rapeseed, which was sown on 446.2 thousand hectares. Already sown: Agrarian farms of the Volyn and Ternopil regions have finished sowing winter rapeseed. The weather conditions of this year's pre-sowing period in Ukraine turned out to be rather difficult and generally unfavorable for the accumulation of moisture in the soil. Specialists of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences came to this conclusion in their August report. The weather conditions of the pre-sowing period turned out to be difficult for obtaining seedlings of winter grain crops in the case of sowing them relatively early, which is impractical and can lead to thinning of crops, and in some ...