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Agrotrade plans to sow 2% more areas in spring of 2023
KYIV. April 5 (Interfax-Ukraine) – In the 2023 season, the Agrotrade agricultural group expanded the sown areas under spring crops by 800 hectares compared to last year, allocating 40,400 hectares for them.
As the company reported on Facebook, the sowing campaign in Sumy and Chernihiv regions has started with the sowing of spring wheat, for which 12,000 hectares will be allocated, while a year ago its crops amounted to only 1,400 hectares.
“The work is a little delayed due to constant rainfall, but the soil is already fully prepared for sowing. Yes, in the fall we took care of closing the moisture in the fields, and in the spring we performed peeling, plowing and cultivation,” said Oleksandr Ovsianyk, the director of the agro-industrial department of Agrotrade.
The group plans during spring field work to sow also 2,800 hectares with mustard, 13,000 hectares of sunflower, 6,700 hectares of corn, 4,900 hectares of soybeans. About 1,000 hectares will be allocated for buckwheat.
A year earlier, Agrotrade allotted 39,600 hectares for spring crops, of which corn was grown on 15,600 hectares, sunflower on 11,700 hectares, rapeseed on 6,600 hectares, 3,100 hectares were occupied by soybeans, 1,400 hectares by spring wheat and 1,200 hectares by mustard.
Upon completion of the current sowing season, Agrotrade plans to carry out additional application of nitrogen fertilizers.
The Agrotrade group of companies is a vertically integrated holding of a full agro-industrial cycle (production, processing, storage and trade in agricultural products). Profile crops are sunflower, corn, winter wheat, soybeans and rapeseed. It has its own network of elevators with a storage capacity of 570,000 tonnes.
