Due to hostilities, a full-scale sowing campaign in Ukraine was under threat, but some regions have already begun work in the field. Farmers plan to sow where possible, and do not rule out that they will change plans for sown crops.

As of March 21, Poltava region farmers have already taken to the fields. As reported and. head of the Poltava Regional State Administration Dmitry Lunin on his Facebook page, while the weather does not allow sowing, therefore, the feeding of winter crops continues.

Sowing is our second front. Poltava region is preparing in full swing. All fields should be sown - 1.4 million hectares of agricultural land,"

In Khmelnitsky region, the spring sowing campaign has essentially already started. Agrarians of the region apply fertilizers, start sowing spring crops, said the head of the Khmelnytsky OVA Serhiy Gamaly.

In turn, the head of the Department for the Development of the Agro-Industrial Complex and Land Relations of the Khmelnytsky Regional State Administration Oleg Omelyanyuk said that farms of all categories should sow about 850 thousand. ha of spring crops, of which 375 thousand. ha of early crops such as spring barley, spring wheat, peas. , soy, sunflower, sugar beet.

Weather conditions in the Odessa region contribute to the beginning of the spring sowing. As he said in a comment for SuperAgronom. com, Chief Agronomist, DPDG named after. Suvorov Sergey Kilinich, the soil in the fields has warmed up enough. According to him, it was possible to enter the field a little earlier, but due to the situation in the country, certain organizational issues prevented this. But now the field work is in full swing..

The Regional State Administration notes that the farmers of the Odessa region plan to sow more than 750 thousand. hectares with spring crops, and on Monday, March 21, we have already completed 3% of the planned.

Sowing campaign also started in Ternopil region. Here, in order for the farmers to have time to carry out all the field work on time, they, despite curfew restrictions, were allowed to work in the field at night.

“Today, the Council of Defense of the Ternopil region adopted a number of important decisions on the organization of the work of agricultural enterprises. In particular, they are allowed to work at night, but only with the consent of the regional military administration,” said the head of the Ternopil Regional State Administration Volodymyr Trush on his Facebook page..

Agrarians from Lviv region also took to the fields on time, the weather in this region allows the season to start, but they complain that in winter the weather damaged certain crops.

Spring sowing in the Vinnytsia region is scheduled for late March - early April, the Regional State Administration announced. Sunflower will be sown first, but there are problems with winter crops - lack of moisture and frost in the spring.

In the Kirovograd region, it was reported that the sowing campaign-2022 will take place adjusted for the war, it will begin in a few weeks.

“We systematize each of your questions and we will solve. Sowing in the conditions of war for the first time at our age,” said the head of the Regional State Administration / Regional Administration Andrey Raikovich at a conference call with farmers on March 20.

Sowing is not yet done in the Cherkassy region, but all the equipment used to fertilize the crops has entered the fields, said the director of one of the agricultural enterprises in the Cherkasy region, Oleksandr Voskoboynik.

His agricultural firm completed the feeding of winter crops: wheat, barley and rapeseed, and tractors plowed the land. At the same time, the farmer noted that the frosts that returned in March were expected, so the work is being carried out within a certain agronomic period..

The Dnipropetrovsk region is also likely to start sowing this week, as the Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council, Nikolay Lukashuk, appealed to the agrarians of the Dnipropetrovsk region with an appeal to start work as soon as the weather permits.

" Spring is likely to be late. As soon as the soil warms up to +5 degrees, sowing will begin.. Estimated end of March. These works will continue until the end of spring - beginning of summer,"

Rivne region has not started sowing yet, but is now working on changing the sowing plan. In particular, some farms announced their intention to sow cereals instead of corn.

“It is important for us to ensure the sowing campaign in a state of war. We are the rear area, on which the regions suffering from the actions of the invaders are counting. I know that we will succeed,” Vadim Patsola, the founder of FG MP-AGRO, said in a commentary to Obshchestvenny..

At the same time, what will happen to the sowing season in those areas where hostilities continue is unknown.. Thus, the chairman of the Kherson Regional Council, Oleksandr Samoylenko, spoke about plans to conduct a sowing campaign in the region, at least partially..

" We were trying to figure out how our sowing season would go.. You yourself understand that spring crops need to be sown already. And we need to sow in the near future,"

A similar situation is in the neighboring Mykolaiv region.

However, according to Agrobusiness Today, despite certain optimistic expectations of experts, up to a third of Ukrainian fields directly in the zone of occupation and in the regions where hostilities are taking place will remain unsown..

" Taking into account the active actions of the management of Ukrzaliznytsia to establish grain exports in the western direction, we can even say that part of it will be able to be sold abroad and thus receive funds for further agricultural production,” analysts point out..