Ukraine says its 2025 winter grain sowing pace remains low
KYIV, Sept 17 (Reuters) -Ukrainian farmers had sown 360,300 hectares of winter grains for the 2025 harvest as of Sept. 16, or 6.9% of the expected area, significantly less than in the previous year, the country's agriculture ministry said on Tuesday.
It said the area included 340,300 hectares of winter wheat and 16,500 hectares of winter barley. Winter wheat generally accounts for 95% of overall Ukrainian wheat output each year.
There was no comparative data in the ministry's statement.
However, the ministry said last year that farmers sowed 514,800 hectares of winter wheat as of Sept. 19, 2023 or 11.8% of the expected area.
The ministry has said the 2025 winter wheat area is seen at 4.7 million hectares, but Ukrainian farmers could increase the sowing area to more than 5 million hectares to compensate for a decline in the winter rapeseed area.
An industry source said this month that the area under rapeseed could fall by 500,000 hectares because of continuing drought across most of the country.
Record high temperatures and a lack of rain almost throughout Ukraine in recent months have created unfavourable conditions for sowing winter crops, particularly rapeseed.
The ministry data showed that farms had sown 688,300 hectares of rapeseed as of Sept. 16, or 61.3% of the expected area of 1.12 million hectares.
Farmers sowed 153,600 hectares of rapeseed in the last 7 days versus 88,000 hectares in the Sept. 2-9 period.
Ukraine has completed the 2024 wheat harvest, threshing 21.8 million metric tons, compared with more than 22 million tons in 2023.
Reporting by Pavel Polityuk; Editing by Alexander Smith
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