Pulses have become a trend of the wartime crop sowing in Ukraine
23 August, 2022 at 16:08The war in Ukraine made adjustments to farmers’ sowing intentions and crop rotation. During the martial law, farmers increasingly added pulses to crop rotation. The choice fell on peas – this crop allows to get a harvest with relatively small costs for fertilizers, seeds and plant protection. Pulses are also a source of vegetable protein, which is attractive from the point of view of food security. Therefore, many Ukrainian farmers have increased their areas under pulses, or have sown them for the first time. Unfortunately, some agricultural producers were unable to sow peas due to the occupation. As a result, 124,000 hectares of peas were sown in Ukraine, the cultivated area was 50% of last year’s figures due to the war.
Unlike peas, the areas under chickpeas could be expanded only by those farmers who had an adequate supply of seeds. The chickpea sown area is about 5.3 thousand ha. Due to the lack of seeds in Ukraine, less than a thousand hectares of lentils were sown. As for beans, they were also sown very little – about 40,000 hectares.
Interest in Ukrainian pulses is also growing against the background of problems with their cultivation in Canada. Growers in Western Canada are hoping to recover from a devastating drought of 2021 that saw pea and lentil yields drop by 44% and chickpeas by 42%, a decade-long record. As a result, Canada has reduced the area planted to legumes by 4-32%, depending on the crop.
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