OREANDA-NEWS. September 13, 2012. Farmers gathered first million tons of corn, having threshed 7% of the projected areas. The sowing winter rape is coming to end – there have been planted 858 thousand hectares, which is 91% of forecast, there is begun sowing of winter-crops grain. That was informed by Mykola Prysyazhnyuk, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food.

"A corn into grain has been threshed in the area of 316 thousand ha (7% of the forecast), threshed 1.1 million tons," said the Minister.

Progress of fieldwork of a sowing campaign for the harvest 2013 continues. Currently, domestic farmers have already sown 497 thousand hectares with cereals and legumes.

In particular, there have been planted 665 thousand hectares with winter wheat and triticale representing 10% of the forecast, rye - 53 thousand hectares, winter barley - 12 thousand hectares.

In addition, harvesting of late cereal and industrial crops goes on.