Currently, the leaders in the field of agriculture, with high crop yields, are Novooskolsky urban district and Prokhorovsky district. They have achieved results of 30.9 and 29.9 centners per hectare respectively on each sown area.
For sunflower cultivation this year, the total land area is 154 thousand hectares.
According to operational data, about 15 thousand hectares have already been harvested, which represents 10% of the total occupied areas. The largest harvesting areas are located in Rovenky district (5 thousand hectares), Valuysky urban district (1.7 thousand hectares) and Shebekinsky urban district (1.6 thousand hectares).