CrimeaPRESS reports:
Andrey Savchuk, the Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Crimea, announced that the Crimean agrarians have started sowing late spring crops.
More than 136 thousand hectares or more than 55% of the planned area allotted for spring sowing have already been sown on the fields of the republic with early and late spring crops. Of these, 133.3 thousand hectares were sown with early spring crops, which is 77%. These are crops such as wheat, barley, oats, peas, chickpeas, coriander, mustard and other crops. Of the later ones, now, for example, farmers are sowing sunflower. More than 3 thousand hectares have already been sown— the press service quotes the head of the Ministry of Agriculture of Crimea.
Andriy Savchuk also recalled that Crimean farmers sowed 542.1 thousand hectares of winter crops for the 2023 harvest last fall. Of these, 512.3 thousand hectares are winter grain crops, which is 2.8 thousand hectares more than last year.
Now, in all these fields, the work on feeding crops is coming to an end. Fertilizers have already been applied on an area of more than 320,000 hectares, or 93%. The predicted area of winter crops feeding this year is almost 350,000 hectares. Let me remind you that Crimean farmers now have the opportunity to purchase mineral fertilizers directly on the peninsula. In March, they began to produce the Crimean plant «Titan». Farmers are fully provided with mineral fertilizers and all the necessary agricultural equipment for spring field work.the minister notes.
The head of the Crimean Ministry of Agriculture also added that all agricultural work in the republic is going according to plan. Horticultural enterprises carry out pruning of fruit trees. Of the 10,000 hectares of orchards to be pruned, work has already been carried out on more than 8,000 hectares. Also, agricultural producers are busy sowing early vegetables and potatoes in the open field. This year the sown area will be about 9,000 hectares. 3.1 thousand hectares are allocated for potatoes, almost 6 thousand hectares for vegetables in the open field. Now more than 400 hectares of potatoes and 900 hectares of vegetables have already been sown in the fields.
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