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Domestic agricultural companies have been provided with mineral fertilizers for conducting field works for 66%
06.03.2012 18:10 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
In the current marketing year, the area of land under winter crops has been increased by 310.4 thousand hectares and amounts 8,398.8 thousand hectares. Thus, wheat was sown on the area of 6,709,100 hectares, rye 317,900 hectares, barley 1,371,400 ha. Overall, in 2011 plantings of winter grain crops have been increased by 3.8% compared with 2010.
«In the steppe zone, the area of planted winter wheat amounted to 5,013,900 hectares, the forest-steppe 2,445,600 hectares, in woodlands 938 900 ha,» informed Director of the Department of farming of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food Oleksandr Demidov.
At this time, there has already begun providing agricultural companies with mineral fertilizers for conducting spring-summer field work.
«The Mykolayiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, Donetsk, Kherson regions have been provided with fertilizers better. Total domestic agricultural companies have been provided for 66% with all mineral fertilizers,» added Oleksandr Demidov.
Among the measures necessary to be taken to save large areas of winter crops, there are timely protection and feeding winter crops with nitrogen fertilizers during the early growth phases; besides, on the fields where high-quality grain is possible to be obtained, it is necessary to carry out the second feeding up.
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