Thanks to recent rains, autumn sowing has picked up, easing worries about a poor harvest next summer

Thanks to recent rains, autumn sowing has picked up, easing worries about a poor harvest next summer, reports APK-Inform consultancy. “Sufficiently heavy rains in the last days of September and early October ended the long-term air-soil drought in most regions of Ukraine and improved conditions for sowing and the development of winter crops,” APK says. After the slowest start in a decade, farmers have sowed 3.86 million hectares with winter crops, 47% of the planned area, reports the Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture Ministry.