The FINANCIAL — In Ukraine, the sprouts of winter crops appeared throughout the areas of 6.6 mln ha, or 93% of the planned areas, declared the Director of the department of agriculture and technical policy in the agro-industrial complex at the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, Volodymyr Topchiy on March 1.
According to him, the current weather conditions contribute to further improvement of condition of winter grain areas. In particular, as of the reporting date 67% of the sprouted areas were in good and satisfactory condition (4.5 mln ha), and 33% – in poor and thinned condition (2 mln ha).
V.Topchy noted that the largest areas for crops replanting are forecasted in Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Poltava oblasts.
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