Russia planted spring crops throughout over 1 mln ha

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APK-Inform

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As of March 30, agrarians of Russia planted spring crops throughout the areas of 1.3 mln ha (2.4% of the forecast), as opposed to 1.2 mln ha on the same date last year, declared the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation.

In particular, in the Southern Federal District agrarians planted early spring crops throughout 555.3 thsd ha (9.4% of the forecast), in the North Caucasian District – 310.1 thsd ha (17.7%), in the Central District – 322.2 thsd ha (3.7%), in the Crimean District – 60.6 thsd ha (28.4%), and in Primorsky Krai – 0.3 thsd ha (0.1%).

Also, Russia started planting sunflower seed, the planted areas already reached 15.5 thsd ha.

Agricultural enterprises continued providing additional fertilizing of winter crops. As of the reporting date, agrarians realized fertilizing works throughout 7.7 mln ha (45.8% of the planted areas) from the general areas of 16.8 mln ha.

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