Third of Ukraine’s land faces moisture shortages, delaying sowing, minister says

KYIV: About 30 percent of Ukrainian farmland is facing moisture shortages, delaying the start of winter sowing, agriculture minister Taras Vysotskyi said on Friday. Ukraine traditionally sows winter wheat, which accounts for more than 95 percent of its total wheat harvest, in autumn for harvesting in the summer of the following year. The agriculture ministry and weather forecasters said this week that conditions in September remained unfavorable for sowing ‌winter wheat, ‌although some farmer

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