Ukraine: no threats for sunflower seed condition

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APK-Inform

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According to the monitoring provided by APK-Inform experts, to date Ukrainian agrarians report that the current adverse weather conditions in the country (snow, rains and frost) failed to make any significant impact on sunflower seed areas, since most sprouts have not appeared yet. Therefore, agrarians will face some delay in the planting campaign only.

At the same time, the companies expect for some lowering of the average yield in terms of significant temperature drop in the nearest days.

According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, as of April 18 Ukrainian agrarians realized the planting campaign throughout 24% of the forecast, and sunflower seed areas reached 1.275 mln ha, down 20% compared with the same date last year.

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