Sowing 2022: Potatoes were planted on 176 thousand hectares less than last year in Ukraine

As of May 26, potatoes have already been planted on an area of 1,106.9 thousand hectares. At that time, a total of 1,283.1 thousand hectares were planted last year. However, sowing is not completed, according to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy. “Sowing in Ukraine continues, 98.5% of last year's sown wheat was sown, 95% of the area projected for spring rapeseed has already been sown. Vinnytsia, Volyn, Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Zakarpattia, Kyiv, Poltava, Mykolaiv, Rivne, Ternopil, Khmelnytsky, Cherkasy, and Chernivtsi regions have finished sowing spring wheat. In general, the sowing of spring cereals and legumes was completed by 78% of last year's figures, "the statement reads. Vinnytsia, Volyn, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Poltava, Rivne, Ternopil, Khmelnytsky, Cherkasy, and Chernivtsi regions have increased the area under spring wheat from 5% to 10%. As of May 26, 2022, the projected sown areas of the main spring crops for the 2022 harvest in the territory controlled by Ukraine are 14,158.5 ...