date:Apr 17, 2014
llion tonnes (wheat - 8.4 million tonnes, barley - 2.3 million tonnes and maize - 18.7 million tonnes).
The troubles in the region also do not appear to have affected the confidence in the farming community in Ukraine to continue sowing this spring.
The official data shows that about 92 per cent of the grain and pea crops had been sown with some regions - Nikolayev, Odessa, Kherson, Vinnytsia, Volyn and Chernihiv and Transcarpathian - having completed sowing.
In all 18.3 million hectares are