On April, 6th the sowing campaign started on the fields of Аgroliga Group. The structure of crops remains unchanged this year. Agrarians are going to sow 1 850 hectares of sunflower, 1 100 hectares of barley grain, 750 hectares of corn and 300 hectares of buckwheat.

On 50 % of the winter areas the first top dressing over frozen thawed soil was carried out. In the farming enterprise plant-root top dressing of winter rape and wheat with ammonium saltpeter was started.

According to the general director of Аgroliga Group Aleksandr Berdnik, the expenses for crops remained at the level of last year. At some farming enterprises expenses for reseeding of areas that were lost under ice crust were increased.

Under the forecasts of the Group experts the productivity of winter crops in the Kharkiv region this year will be 20 % lower than that in the year 2009. This will cause increase of wheat prices.