The warm weather in December 2011 had a positive influence on the state of winter crops in Ukraine, head of the agrometeorological center Tetiana Adamenko has said.

"Weather conditions, formed in December, are favorable for winter crops. If at the end of November we spoke that the situation is so difficult that the warm weather will hardly change anything, currently, according to our data, in some regions sprouts of winter crops appeared where they have been absent earlier," she said.

At the same time, as Adamenko noted, despite the warm weather, winter crops went into the phase of sprouts too late and it is rather difficult to forecast their further development. "Development of those winter crops is so non-standard that it will really be a kind of an experiment for Ukraine," she noted.

According to her, currently, winter crop sprouts failed to appear on 30% of areas under crops and on 40% - they are thinned. "We can say now that it will be necessary to repeatedly sow 35-40% of areas.

At the same time, it is worth expecting deficit of winter wheat and barley," Tetiana Adamenko added.
 

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