The area under grain and legume crops on May 1, 2022 was 15.7% higher than a year earlier .
A total of 2.4 million hectares of land were sown in Russia as of May 1, 2022, compared to 2.85 million a year earlier. Most likely, such a reduction in the area of crops is a consequence primarily of weather factors, rather than economic factors, the spring this year was colder than last year, but nevertheless the figures (against the background of the beginning of the world food crisis) are unpleasant
The situation is good in the southern regions: the Krasnodar region sowed by 33% more than a year before, the Rostov region - by 54.5%, the Volgograd region - by 39%. Of the large agricultural regions, a slight decrease was recorded only in Stavropol Territory: -5.4% compared with last year
The situation in the Volga region is much worse. In Mordovia, 44% less land was sown than a year earlier, in Tatarstan - by a record 73.4%! In the Chernozem region, too, the decline from -8.3% in Kursk region to -36% in Lipetsk
