In the Kharkiv region, agricultural producers sowed 1.8 million hectares with agricultural crops. Sergei Prokopchenko, Director of the Department of Agroindustrial Development of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration, spoke about this during a briefing.. According to him, due to rainy weather, the sowing season ended more than two weeks later.. Now 100% of the projected areas are sown. “There were heavy rains in the region, but they continued at intervals of 2-4 days, so the farmers could work, but this mode of operation led to the fact that the sowing season ended in early June,” Sergei Prokopchenko said.. Thus, the total sown area of \u200b\u200bagricultural crops for this year's harvest is 1.8 million hectares, which is 1% more than last year.. In particular, the agrarians of the region sowed with spring grains and leguminous crops 432.6 thousand. ha, which is 98% of the forecast. In the structure of sown areas, grain crops will occupy 57.8%, which in terms of area corresponds to 1 million hectares and 4% more than in 2020. Advisor to the Chairman of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Yevgeny Ivanov recalled that on the initiative of Aina Timchuk, a Council on the work of the agro-industrial complex was created. The Council is an advisory and advisory body and was created with the aim of solving topical issues of the development of the agro-industrial complex of the region and the implementation of land reform. Now work is underway in two subgroups of the council:

subgroup 1 deals with the development of the agro-industrial complex and the innovation and investment potential of the Kharkiv region, and subgroup 2 considers the rational and efficient use of land, and also carries out explanatory work on land reform. Also during the briefing, the Director of the Department of Agro-Industrial Development spoke about the results of the participation of the Kharkiv region in the International Agro-Industrial Exhibition " Kiev. Recall that the region was awarded a gold medal in the nomination "