Ukrainian farmers will receive spring wheat seeds from FAO

Ukrainian farmers will receive spring wheat seeds from the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), which cooperates with the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. The seeds will be given to small and medium-sized farms and agricultural producers whose land areas are from 10 to 500 hectares. In total, assistance will be provided to 1,500 farmers from Chernihiv, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, and Zaporizhia regions. Preference will be given to farms located near the front line. The amount of aid provided will depend on the area of cultivated land.

To receive assistance from FAO, it is necessary to register for participation in the program through the State Agrarian Register (DAR). The deadline for applications is March 17. After processing and analysis of all received applications, selected program participants will receive confirmation of assistance through DAR and will be notified of the time and place of receiving assistance. Farms will need to collect the issued seeds from the warehouse.

It should be noted that the 2024 sowing season in Ukraine has already begun. Agricultural farms of Vinnytsia, Mykolaiv, Odesa and Kherson regions have already started spring sowing of cereals and legumes. Wheat, barley and peas are sown.

Let's add that as of February 29, Ukrainian farmers had almost 8.6 thousand tons of plant protection products available, which is 31.3% of the previously declared need for the first half of the current year (27.57 thousand tons). The amount of herbicide stocks on the specified date was 5.43 thousand tons, or 30% of the declared need (18.06 thousand tons). The highest level of affordability is recorded in Zhytomyr (49%), Zaporizhia (45.7%) and Odesa (44%) regions. And these indicators are currently the lowest in Donetsk (9.9%), Khmelnytskyi (14.3%) and Chernivtsi (16.4%) regions.

It should be noted that, according to agrometeorological calculations and taking into account the condition of winter crops in the fall of 2023, overwintering conditions, the results of the growth of samples of winter crops and the future weather forecast, it is expected that at the beginning of the active growing season, the total area of winter crops will be in a weak state (thinned crops , which will require resowing or undersowing) in Ukraine will be about 0.3 million hectares, or 7% of the sown.