Kharkiv oblast farmers in Ukraine will increase the area under spring wheat, peas, buckwheat, millet, and sunflower for the 2024 harvest

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Published Mar 16, 2024

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Farmers in the Kharkiv region have significantly increased their winter crop sowing area by 46.2% in autumn 2023, compared to the previous year, covering 325.9 thousand hectares. The majority of this area was used for winter wheat, with smaller portions allocated to barley, rye, and winter rapeseed, the latter seeing a 57.9% increase in sowing area. Looking ahead, the region's farmers plan to sow spring crops on over 960,000 hectares, expecting to see growth in wheat, peas, buckwheat, millet, and sunflower cultivation.

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In the autumn of 2023, the farmers of Kharkiv region increased the area under winter crops by 46.2% compared to the autumn sowing of 2022, namely 325.9 thousand hectares. This is reported by Kharkiv OVA. Winter wheat was sown the most — 323,000 hectares. Also, farms of the region sowed 2.4 thousand ha of barley, 0.5 thousand ha of rye. Winter rapeseed was sown on an area of 22.9 thousand hectares, which is 57.9% more than in 2022. "In most of the territory of the Kharkiv region, winter crops have been in a state of shallow winter dormancy for a decade, only in the southern and central regions, where the highest air and soil temperatures were observed, during the daytime, the winter crop grew weakly," said Yevhen Ivanov, deputy head of the Kharkiv OVA. According to preliminary data, this year Kharkiv oblast farmers plan to sow spring crops on an area of more than 960,000 hectares. It is expected to increase the ...

Source: Superagronom