Grains and legumes this year took 46.8 million hectares, expanded to the final last year to 435 thousand hectares. Including the area under wheat increased to 28.1 million hectares of winter — on 506 thousand (to 15.8 million hectares), spring — 300 thousand (up to 12.3 million hectares).
The area under oilseed crop species increased to 14.5 million hectares. The main agriculture — sunflower — showed an increase of 345 thousand hectares (8.5 million acres). Soy this year was sown on more than 3 million hectares, which is 90 thousand more than in 2018. Sowing of rapeseed remained on last year's level of 1.6 million hectares.
The crops of flax, according to the spring account, increased by 6 thousand to 51 thousand hectares.
Earlier, the agriculture Ministry predicted that in 2019, the sown area in the country will increase by 1.2 million hectares and for the first time since 2002, exceeds 80 million hectares.
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Translated by service "Yandex.Translation"
