uri Melnik, Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, said the government increased its forecast of grain harvests in 2009 to 48 million tonnes from 45 million tonnes. Melnik said the government changed its estimate due to satisfactory conditions of winter crop sowings and good rates of the spring sowing campaign.
Agricultural enterprises will sow grains throughout previously planned areas of 16 million hectares (including winter grains), added Melnik. The Ministry said it will continue correcting its forecasts of grain crops depending on how the weather conditions influence grain harvest formation.
At the same time, data from IA APK-Inform confirmed the forecast. Grain and legumes sowing areas for 2009 are estimated to total 15.2 million hectares, and the grain harvest in 2009 is estimated not to exceed 40 million hectares.
The forecast of IA APK-Inform, which was published on March 9, is based on the processing of great volumes of statistic information and data of the panel representational polling of agricultural producers within the study "Ukraine: sowing campaign-2009. Forecast of harvests of main agricultural crops in Ukraine in 2009."
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