The sowing of spring crops has started in Kherson and Mykolaiv regions, First Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food Policy Maksym Martyniuk said on his Facebook page.
According to his data, as of April 2 Kherson region had sowed 4,000 hectares with barley and 300 hectares with peas. Mykolaiv region sowed barley on 600 hectares.
The area under crops for the harvest of 2018 will be 27.2 million hectares, which corresponds to the indicator of 2017.
As of March 30, Ukrainian agrarians are 100 percent provided with seeds (638,000 metric tons), 91 percent with plant protection agents (27,400 metric tons), and 81 percent with fuel (326,000 metric tons).
Martyniuk noted, despite the increase in import duties on fertilizers from Russia (from 36.03 percent to 42.96 percent), prices for most types of fertilizers (including ammonium nitrate) over the last week did not increase, but even slightly decreased.
