KYIV: Heavy frosts throughout nearly all Ukrainian areas within the first half of January didn’t have a destructive influence on winter grain crops, that are in largely passable situation, analyst APK-Inform quoted authorities scientists as saying on Monday (Jan 15).
Winter wheat has traditionally accounted for about 95 per cent of all wheat grown in Ukraine, however the yield relies upon largely on beneficial climate circumstances from autumn to late spring.
“Such climate circumstances don’t have any destructive influence on wintering of winter crops and in the present day winter crops in Ukraine are in passable situation,” APK-Inform cited Ukraine’s Nationwide Agrarian Academy as saying of the latest frosts.
Ukrainian farmers sowed about 4.2 million hectares of winter wheat for the 2024 harvest, in contrast with 4.5 million hectares a yr earlier.
Ukraine’s first deputy minister Taras Vysotskiy mentioned late final yr that the nation might harvest as much as 20 million metric tons of winter wheat from the sown space.
Ukraine harvested greater than 22 million tons of wheat final yr.
