A large part of the area is wheat and 1.2 million hectares, rye - 60,5 thousand hectares, triticale - 15.6 thousand hectares, ginger and 15.1 thousand hectares.

Simultaneously with the sowing in the Volgograd region is the harvesting of technical crops. According to the regional Committee agriculture, today they are removed in the area of 356,3 thousand hectares harvested 330,8 thousand tons. The sunflower crop is 141.7 per thousand tons, flax - more than 58 thousand tons, safflower - 90.6 thousand tons (twice more than last year).

Recall all farmers harvested 4 million 285 thousand tons of grain, including maize for grain. The crop exceeds the plan established in 2016 for the Volgograd region Ministry of agriculture. Total cleaning area was 1.9 million hectares, the average yield is 24.1 t/ha.