BAKU, Azerbaijan, Dec. 28
By Eldar Janashvili - Trend:
Winter grain crops and green fodder were sown in Azerbaijan on an area of over 1 million hectares, 98.4 percent of which accounted for winter crops, in particular, 636,200 hectares of wheat, 366,200 hectares of barley and 350 hectares of rye as of Dec. 24, 2019, Trend reports referring to Azerbaijan’s State Statistics Committee.
Most of all, winter grain crops were sown in Azerbaijan’s Sheki (42,700 hectares), Jalilabad (55,000 hectares), Fuzuli (28,800 hectares), Shamakhi (28,500 hectares), Hajigabul (24,300 hectares), Ismayilli (22,700 hectares) and Gobustan (20,700 hectares) districts.
The biggest amount of barley accounts for Sheki (24,400 hectares) Neftchala (36,800 hectares), Kurdamir (32,800 hectares), Bilasuvar (17,900 hectares), Agsu (17,200 hectares), Agdash (13,000 hectares) and Shamakhi (12,000 hectares) districts.
Compared to the same period last year, the sown area of winter grain crops increased by 0.3 percent, including barley - by 10.6 percent, rye - by 43.4 percent, wheat - by 4.8 percent.