KIEV, Sept 18 (Reuters) - * Ukrainian farms have sown atotal of 840,000 hectares of winter grains for the 2020 harvest,or 12 percent of the expected area, the agriculture ministrysaid on Wednesday.
* Farms sowed 779,000 hectares of winter wheat, 29,000hectares of winter barley and 32,000 hectares of winter rye asof Sept. 16, it said in a statement.
* Ukraine sowed about 7.2 million hectares of winter grainsfor the 2019 harvest.(Reporting by Pavel PolityukEditing by David Goodman)