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Some 63,000 hectares have already been sown with wheat crops, which is 36% of the target.
Ukrainian agrarians as of March 25 had sowed early spring grain and leguminous crops on 962,000 hectares (ha), which accounted for 42% of the planned area.
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In particular, wheat was sown on an area of 63,000 ha, or 36% of the target; spring barley on 684,000 ha (44%), oats on 45,000 ha (23%); and peas on 171,000 ha (49%), the Ukrainian Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry's press service said on March 25.
Mineral fertilizers were added on 6.9 million ha under winter grain crops, or 91% of the target, it said.
In particular, as of March 25, mineral fertilizers were added on 5.9 million ha under winter wheat (91% of the target), 103,000 ha under winter rye (89%), 963,000 ha under winter barley (96%), and 1.24 million ha under winter rapeseed (96%).
As UNIAN reported early, Ukraine started planting early spring grain and leguminous crops on March 4, according to the Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry.
In 2018, Ukraine harvested a record high yield of grain, having threshed 70.1 million tonnes.