In 2019, representatives of agricultural organizations of the Volgograd region significantly increased the area under cultivation of various crops, which belong to the category of technical ones.
It is known that the increase in sown area reached an indicator of seven hundred seventy seven thousand seven hundred hectares.
If we compare this figure with the indicators of the area of technical crops in the past, 2018, then we can safely talk about an increase of one hundred and two percent.
Employees of the Federal State Statistics Service for the Volgograd Region note that this year the main agrarians of the region decided to significantly increase the area on which grain sunflower is cultivated.
And today, fields with this crop occupy almost eighty-five and a half percent of all territories that are reserved for technical cultivation.
As for mustard, its share in the total indicator is five and a half percent. Oil-curled flax takes a little less than three and a half percent of the total sown area. The share of soybeans is just over one percent.
If we talk about sesame, safflower and castor oil, then their specific gravity is three and a half percent. Flax flax is content with two tenths of a percent. A saffron mushroom - six tenths of a percent of the total area of technical crops, according to Volgogradstat.
