According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Ukrainian agricultural companies had sown 6.2 million hectares of winter wheat as of Nov. 11, or almost 94% of the planned area of 6.66 million hectares.
Winter grain sowing has practically stopped in recent days as farmers have planted only around 120,000 hectares since the beginning of November.
Particularly, winter wheat sowing plans were not fulfilled by two leading wheat growing regions – Zaporizhzhia and Odessa.
The lack of rain affected about a third of planted areas and on this wake likely Ukrainian farmers could also cut corn sowing area.
Meantime, Ukraine has exported 21.5 million tonnes of grain so far in the 2021/22 July-June season, up 18.4% from 18.5 million tonnes at the same stage a year earlier.
That included 13.1 million tonnes of wheat, 4.6 million tonnes of barley and 3.5 million tonnes of corn, the data showed.
