Ukraine: Sowing season-2024 in Poltava Oblast started with spring barley sowing, 16,000 hectares were sown

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Published Mar 20, 2024

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The 2024 sowing campaign has commenced in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine, with 18,000 hectares of land already sown with crops such as barley, wheat, oats, and peas. The region's farmers aim to sow approximately 1.4 million hectares, including spring cereals, legumes, and industrial crops. The region is also developing greenhouse farming, with the first agrarian communal enterprise in Ukraine cultivating unused or illegally used community lands. The produce from these greenhouses is sold to shops, donated to local schools and kindergartens, and has generated UAH 700,000 in its first year.

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The 2024 sowing campaign has started in Poltava Oblast. The press service of Poltava Oblast reports this. Agricultural enterprises and farms of the region sow spring crops. "The first 18,000 hectares of land have already been sown. Currently, the largest amount of barley is sown — almost 16,000 hectares. Also, 900 hectares of wheat were sown, the rest - oats and peas," said the head of Poltava OVA Philip Pronin. Before spring sowing, Poltava farmers planned about 1.4 million hectares. These are 606,000 hectares of spring cereals and legumes and another 633,000 hectares of industrial crops. In addition to field crops, greenhouse farms are also being developed in the Poltava region. So, vegetables are being planted in the greenhouse, which began to be equipped on February 24, 2022 in the Opishnyansk community, Suspilne reports. "We created the first agrarian communal enterprise in Ukraine, which cultivates community lands that were not in use or were used illegally. There are ...

Source: Superagronom