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As of February 11, winter grains sowings in Ukraine showed good condition throughout the area of 3.89 mln ha, or 45.6% from the general area of sowings in the country. 3.77 mln ha or 44.1% of winter crops sowings had satisfactory condition, informed the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.
10.3% of the sowing areas or 0.87 mln ha had weak and thinned condition of winter crops.
Winter wheat had good condition throughout the area of 3.09 mln ha – 46.4% of the general sowings, satisfactory condition – 2.9 mln ha (43.7%), weak and thinned condition – 0.65 mln ha (9.9%). Winter barley sowings condition was estimated as good throughout 0.64 mln ha (40.6% of the general barley sowings), 0.74 mln ha (47%) – satisfactory condition, and 0.19 mln ha (12.4%) – weak and thinned condition.
As of February 11, 37.9% of winter rapeseed sowings showed good condition, satisfactory condition – 41.6%, weak and thinned condition – 20.5%.
According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, as of the reporting date, 4.9% from the general areas of sowings or 0.41 mln ha had ice covering, Particularly, Poltava oblast had 49.6% of winter crops under ice covering, Ivano-Frankivsk oblast – 29.9%, Kharkiv oblast – 15%, Cherkassy oblast – 12.1%, Sumy oblast – 11.4%, Lugansk oblast – 8.3%, Kiev oblast – 5.1%, Odessa oblast – 2.5%, Zakarpatskaya oblast – 2.2%, Khmelnytskyi oblast – 2.1%.
According to data of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, the general condition of winter crops worsened compared to the end of January 2009.
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