In Crimea increased the sowing area due to the commissioning of a land reserve. This August 2 at a press conference in Simferopol, said the Minister of agriculture of Crimea Andrey Ryumshin, the correspondent of IA REGNUM.

"Now commissioned reserve lands, about 120-150 thousand hectares," — said the Minister.

He also noted that to improve the sustainability of wheat and barley to drought in 2018 on the Peninsula brought 13 new varieties of grain in Rostov and Stavropol selection.

As REGNUM reported earlier, the Crimean agrarians harvested nearly 900 thousand tons of early grain crops, and for sowing winter grain group they need almost 90 thousand tons of seeds.