On April 10 this year, the Infoindustria news agency conducted monitoring of the country's farms. Agrarians of the South of Ukraine reported that the lack of precipitation badly affects the growth and development of winter crops.

The majority of respondents rated the state of winter cereal crops as satisfactory. And only in the southern regions of the country did agrarians complain about the lack of productive moisture in the soil.

In particular, they indicated that the top layer of the earth is overdried, which negatively affects the growth and development of winter grains.

Due to the lack of rain, crops stopped at the stage of tillering. And only part of them is at the exit stage. In other parts of the country, the respondents indicated the amount of moisture in the soil sufficient for normal growth of winter crops.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture, winter grains for the 2019 crop were sown on an area of ​​7.1 million hectares, or 98% of the forecast. Including wheat, 6.1 million hectares were sown, barley - 885 thousand hectares and rye - 119 thousand hectares.

Earlier it was reported that some farmers in the southern regions of Ukraine were forced to re-sow cereals with sunflower due to the sudden snowfall at the end of March this year.