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Sunflower seeds: wide price range for the new crop

May 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM , Der AUDITOR
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SOFIA/KYIV. While sunflower seed sowing is still underway in Ukraine, market players in Bulgaria prefer to wait and see how the new crop will develop in the coming weeks. Depending on the risk appetite of the suppliers, the current offers for the new crop vary considerably.

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast is the main growing region

In Ukraine, growers are still busy sowing many agricultural commodities for this year's crop. Sunflower seeds have been sown on 3.919 million hectares so far, which is 77% of the planned acreage. The Dnipropetrovsk oblast in the east of the country is the largest growing region with 570,800 ha. Due to unfavourable weather conditions in spring, sowing was delayed this year – the optimum period for sowing sunflower seeds is slowly coming to an end. This time last year, 4.605 million hectares of sunflower seeds had

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