Recently precipitation not only replenished the moisture reserves in the soil, but also led to a decrease in the sowing rate.
According to the Sumy Regional Center for Hydrometeorology, from April 11 to April 16, 2019, the total rainfall on the lands of the region ranged from 42 to 101% of the monthly norm, the APR Department of the Sumy Regional State Administration said in a statement.
Currently, Sumy region agrarians sowed 48.6 thousand ha of land with early grain and leguminous crops, which is 80% of the forecast.
In total, such crops were sown: spring wheat - 2.1 thousand hectares; spring barley - 34.2 thousand ha; oats - 7.9 thousand ha; peas - 4.4 thousand hectares. Corn was sown on an area of 11.9 thousand ha (3% of the forecast). An area of 889 ha was planted with sugar beet, and 818 ha with spring rape.
43.4 thousand ha were sown with sunflower. Sowing spring crops in the Sumy region is still ongoing. Earlier it was reported that due to the recent sharp cooling at the beginning of this week, accompanied by precipitation, the sowing campaign of corn and sunflower in the Vinnitsa region was suspended.
Farmers of the Berezovsky FG managed to experimentally plant only 10% of the projected areas with sunflower. Vinnytsia agrarians planned to resume the sowing campaign of this culture today.
