In Volyn, the sowing of winter grain crops has already been completed. In all categories of farms, 180.7 thousand hectares were sown against intentions of 177.8 thousand ha, which amounts to 101.6% of the planned. This was discussed on October 18 at a staff meeting in the regional state administration. According to preliminary harvest results, in Volyn region grain crops were harvested on an area of 278.7 thousand ha, the gross grain harvest in the initial-income phase is almost 817 thousand tons, the yield per 1 ha is 29.3 centners. Compared with last year, the gross harvest increased by 227 thousand tons, the yield by 5.3 centners.