Posted on 05/20/2022 8:06:08 PM PDT by elpadre
KYIV. May 20 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Ukraine has sown crops on 11.84 million hectares, or 82.2% of the 14.4-million-hectare area planned for this spring, including crops sown on 1,94 million hectares on May 12-19, the Ukrainian Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food said on Friday.
Sunflower crops have been sown on 3.94 million hectares (80% of the 4.93 million hectares planned for 2022), corn on 4.17 million hectares (86% of 4.85 million hectares), spring barley on 927,500 hectares (92.6% of 1.02 million hectares), spring wheat on 188,600 hectares (99.4% of 189,600 hectares), oats on 156,800 hectares (95.8% of 163,600 hectares), and peas on 124,800 hectares (86% of 145,700 hectares) as of May 19, according to a statement published on the ministry website.
In addition, the areas sown with potatoes stand at 1.07 million hectares (90% of 1.19 million hectares), while soybeans are sown on 728,600 hectares (78.6% of 1.25 million hectares), sugar beet on 182,000 hectares (88% of 206,900 hectares), spring rapeseed on 28,400 hectares (95.3% of 29,800 hectares), millet on 32,100 hectares (51.5% of 62,300 hectares) and buckwheat on 37.400 hectares (46% of 81,600 hectares).
"The sowing is continuing in Ukraine. Spring wheat has been sown on almost 98% of the planned area," the ministry said.
Winter crops were sown on 7.7 million hectares in 2021, including 6.5 million hectares of wheat, one million hectares of barley, and 0.16 million hectares of rye.
As reported earlier, Ukraine will reduce the sowing of highly marginal crops (sunflower and corn) this year, while increasing the area under simpler crops that are more important for food security - peas, barley and oat.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on April 20 that Ukraine would sow crops on approximately 14.2 million hectares this year, which is 80% of 16.9 million hectares sown with crops last year.
Earlier, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food estimated the spring 2022 sowing at 13.44 million hectares, as against 16.92 million hectares in 2021.
Deputy chief of staff of the Ukrainian presidential office Rostyslav Shurma said that Ukraine was aiming at a 2022 harvest of at least 70% of the previous amounts.
Considering the on-going war and the millions of displaced persons, by anyone’s book, those Ukrainian farmers are impressive. My hats off to them!!
Their John Deere tractors were not stolen from the dealership so they actually work!
Let farmers make money. The planet will starve. Don’t give a damn whether Lugansk and Donbass are Russian or not. The world needs to eat. Russians, let the grain out, Ukraine, you allowed yourselves to be used by the West. Take your money and go away.
looking at the map showing where the Russians are, it seems they hold only a small portion of Ukraine along the eastern border. The farm lands are probably west of where they are and not mined.
There was quite a bit of wailing and gnashing of the teeth in that thread. Imagine telling them it’s just a small portion lol.
Probably a lie but this way they get to put Pressure on Russia to open the ports. This won’t happen without concessions so they grt to blame Russia for world hunger. The more you know.
We are so screwed.
Well somebody is lying. Maybe everybody. Didn't Brandon said is was a world catastrophe.
You need to leave some fallow.
Farmers are a hard headed lot and are tied to the rythm of God’s nature and they are going to plant when it is time.
I noticed this l when our media allowed uncensored videos of the Syrian civil war to be viewed. The fighting would be going on but in the background the crops would be planted and growing. Heck in the background civilian traffic could be seen traveling the highways just like in the Ukraine.
Russians blocking Ukraine grain exports is a crime against humanity. Ukrainians are the most serious farmers in Europe. They farm and they provide. I salute them.
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