Farmers have planted corn on 97% of the area designated
As of June 10, 2014 spring grains and legumes (corn) were planted on an area of 7.7 million hectares, which is 96% of the forecast.
As of June 10, 2014 spring grains and legumes (corn) were planted on an area of 7.7 million hectares, which is 96% of the forecast.
This was stated by the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food.
In particular, early spring grains have been planted on an area of about 2.6 million hectares, corn- on an area of 4.8 million hectares (97% of the forecast).
Buckwheat was planted on 139 thousand hectares (85% of the forecast), millet — on 95 thousand hectares (87% of the forecast), and 10 thousand hectares with rice (42% of the forecast).
Sugar beet was planted on an area 333 thousand hectares (101% of the forecast).
Sunflower, currently, was seeded on an area of 4.7 million hectares, or 103% of the forecast, and soybeans — on an area 1.7 million hectares, or 100% of the forecast.