OREANDA-NEWS. February 16, 2012. Last fall, domestic farmers sowed winter crops on nearly 8.5 million hectares. However, due to bad weather almost 1.5 million of seeded areas had not brairded. Currently, farmers are already preparing for spring field work and re-sowing of from 2.5 to 3 million hectares of winter crops.

The Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Mykola Prysyazhnyuk and experts from the Ministry visited all regions of the country and held a meeting devoted to spring-field works to resolve this situation.

As of today the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food hold a meeting in all regions. Only since the beginning of this year, Mykola Prysyazhnyuk personally visited Poltava, Rivne, Volyn Zaporizhzhya and Kyiv regions.

"Meetings are held in each of 25 regions, taking into account climatic zones of the region. Academics, who recommends what crop should be sown areas, where winter not brairded, involved in the discussion" - the Minister said.

According to Mykola Prysyazhnyuk, the situation that are with winter corps is not very critical, as were the years when farmers re-sowed to 6 million hectares of winter crops. However, in some areas - Lugansk, Zaporozhye, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv and the Crimea, where snow cover is absent or too small, we will have to re-sow significant areas.

Currently, the Government has allocated 20 million UAH from budget for purchase of additional seeds for spring field work. The Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov instructed to work out cheapening of fertilizer, fuel and lubricants. This compensates to farmers costs that arise in connection with re-sowing winter corps and other spring field work.

The Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food said that despite the situation with winter corps, we have not threat of food crisis and there is not dynamic of prices rise for grain.

In general, the state of preparation for the complex spring field work will be considered on February 23 this year at the enlarged session of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine.