Sowing-2024: Farmers of the Mykolaiv region have already sown more than 18 thousand hectares of spring cereals

In Ukraine, twelve regions have already started sowing spring cereals - wheat, barley, peas and oats. Among them is the Mykolayiv region.

As of March 7, 68,000 hectares have already been sown in Ukraine, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine reported.

Of these, 18,400 hectares were sown in the Mykolaiv region: 0,700 hectares of wheat, 11,500 hectares of barley, 6,000 hectares of peas and 0,2 hectares of oats.

The farmers of Odesa region sowed the most — 33 thousand hectares, including: 0.5 thousand hectares of wheat, 17.5 thousand hectares of barley, 14.3 thousand hectares of peas and 0.7 hectares of oats.

At the same time, only 5.8 thousand hectares were sown in Ternopil Oblast, 2.5 thousand hectares were sown in Khmelnytskyi, and 3.4 thousand hectares in Vinnytsia.

Previously, NikVesti told about a farmer from Kyselivka, who is trying to demine his fields by himself.

How is the demining of the Mykolaiv Oblast going on?

Ukraine recently updated the country's priority demining plan. According to it, more than 512,000 hectares of agricultural land are subject to priority demining, of which 44,000 hectares are in Mykolaiv Oblast.

As of December 2023 , 30% of the territory of the Mykolaiv region has been mined. In total, it is 754 thousand hectares of land.

At the same time, they are working on demining in the region. For example, as of October 2023, 13 thousand 40 hectares, including 9 thousand 25 hectares of agricultural land, have been demined in the Mykolayiv region. Dmytro Komarov, the author of the «World Inside Out.Ukraine» project, visited the mined territories of Mykolaiv Oblast and showed the work of local sappers.

It is known that the company «Demining of Ukraine» has developed a plant capable of demining the Mykolaiv region for three months.

About 30,000-35,000 hectares of land remain mined in the Bashtan district of the Mykolaiv region, part of which was under occupation. And in the village of Maksymivka of the Pervomaisk community of the Mykolaiv region , locals live with an unexploded shell under the foundation of the house.

In general, the demining situation in Maksymivka is currently critical. A year after liberation from the Russian occupiers , the village was demined by only 40%.

Read also the article NikVesti «Decades are needed: How the demining process of the Mykolaiv region continues.»