[/ATTACH][BR] Ukrainian farmers had sown about 400,000 hectares (988,000 acres) of various spring crops by Thursday, 10 percent more than on the same date last year despite the Russian invasion, the country's Deputy Agriculture Minister Taras Vysotsky said.
The fuel shortage did not affect sowing, he added. "We are negotiating with suppliers so as not to stop the planned sowing," Vysotsky said in a televised statement.
Ukrainian officials in the agriculture sector told Reuters that the area sown to spring crops in 2022 could be more than halved from last year, to about 7 million hectares, compared with 15 million hectares expected before the invasion.
They say farmers could reduce the area sown with solar
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