The territory of the Lugansk region, controlled by Ukraine, has a serious dynamics of growth in agricultural production. Last year alone, this figure grew by 9%.

This was told by the director of the Agency for Regional Development of East Donbass Larisa Bychkova.

According to her, after the loss of the Russian sales market, the region is gradually establishing supplies to other countries. export potential grew by 20% to $ 41 million; oil exports also increased.

“Over the past few years, a record number of grain and leguminous crops have been growing in the region - about 1.2 million tons. This indicates a positive trend towards increased yields and is the result of improved agricultural technologies and the use of modern agricultural machinery, ”said Larisa Bychkova.

In general, the Luhansk region has more than 1.42 million hectares. agricultural land and almost 1 million arable land. In the production of agricultural products a little more than 1 thousand enterprises. The vast majority of farms grow crops.

The main crops are wheat and sunflower. More than half of the land is sown with crops, the rest is allocated to crops such as barley, rye, corn, millet, buckwheat, oats, peas, rape, mustard and flax.