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03.05.2017
Current year losses of winter crops are record low over the past decade
![Current year losses of winter crops are record low over the past decade Current year losses of winter crops are record low over the past decade](/imglib/_newimage/pres_sluzhba/novosti/57614/1584.jpg)
According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, current year losses of winter crops are record low over the past 10 years. In winter period of 2016/2017 marketing year only 0.4% (25.5 thous. ha) of winter crops were ruined by frost out of the total area sown by winter crops (7,175.1 thous. ha). Losses of wheat and triticale amounted to 0.3%, rye - 0.1%, barley - 1.1% and rapeseed - 5.8%.
On the average in winter Ukrainian farmers annually loose from 3 and 7% of winter crops. In addition, this year out of 99.6% of the kept winter crops 89% are in good and satisfactory condition, and 10.6% of the areas under winter crops have weak and thinned emerging crops. The most affected crops are rapeseed (14.3%) and barley (13.6%) – the kept crops have weak and thinned growth above the ground. Wheat and triticale (10.3%) as well as rye (8.3%) have minor losses.