According to the director of the Department of Agro-Industrial Development of the Sumy Regional State Administration, Alexander Maslak, according to preliminary estimates, the gross harvest of crops in 2019 is expected to be tons.
Of this number, early grains will amount to 1 million tons, corn for grain - 3 million tons.
The highest productivity indicators for today were given by Trostyanetsky - 58 c./ha., Glukhovsky - 53.2 c./ha., Lebedinsky - 52 c./ha. and Konotop - 51 c / ha. areas.
According to Alexander Maslak, if the weather does not hinder, agricultural enterprises of the Sumy region will be able to complete the harvest of early grains and legumes within 7-8 days.
For information, according to statistics on the Sumy region, in all categories of farms, the sown area of crops in 2019 is 1 million 172 thousand ha., Which is 12.4 thousand ha. more than last year.
Earlier it was reported that according to the forecasts of Ukrainian industry experts this season, the wheat crop in Ukraine will reach the level of 27.5 million tons, and the average yield will be 4.28 tons / ha. This was reported by APK-Inform analyst Andrei Kupchenko.
