Ukraine says 94 packet of spring grains sown so far. Farmers have also started 2017 maize sowing, seeding 341,000 hectares, or 8 percent of a planned 4.5-million-hectare area. A week ago, the ministry saw the planted area at 4.4 million hectares. Farmers have sown 31,000 hectares of soybean out of a planned 1.9 million hectares this year. They have also sown 1.3 million hectares of sunflower, or 24 percent of the expected area of 5.4 million hectares, and 263,000 hectares of sugar beet, or 90 percent of the forecast.