Winter rye sowing areas for the 2026 harvest are smaller than last year

5.31 million hectares of winter grain crops, compared to 5.06 million hectares a year ago. At the same time, 4.66 million hectares (4.4 million hectares) were sown with winter wheat, 582.2 thousand hectares (610.5 thousand hectares) with barley, and 66.1 thousand hectares (68.6 thousand hectares) with rye. “Among the leaders in grain crops are Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk and Mykolaiv regions. Grain sowing has already been completed in Dnipropetrovsk, Zakarpattia, Zaporizhia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Mykolaiv, Odessa, Poltava, Rivne and Chernihiv regions,” the report says. According to him, rapeseed was planted on an area of ​​1.082 million hectares as of November 18 (last year – 1.08 million hectares), which is 96% of the projected area. Farmers in all regions have actually completed its sowing. The Ministry of Economy previously published forecast indicators for the area sown with winter grain crops for the 2026 harvest. The ministry expects that Ukrainian farmers will reduce the area sown ...