According to the local Ministry of Agriculture, Ukrainian farms had sown 1.95 million hectares of winter wheat for the 2022 harvest as of Sept 27 or 29% of the expected area of 6.68 million hectares.
Winter wheat accounts for 95% of Ukraine’s total wheat sowing area.
The winter grain sowing area will also include 1.02 million hectares of winter barley and the sowing is 12% complete.
Meantime Ukraine, one of the major grain growers and exporters globally, plans to harvest a record 80.6 million tonnes of grain in 2021.
