June 13, this year An online briefing on “Results of the end of the sowing campaign in Ukraine during the war” took place.
According to Tetyana Adamenko, Head of the Agrometeorology Department of the Hydrometeorological Center of Ukraine, despite some unfavorable features of the current growing season, which affects the harvest of crops, This was reported by APK-Inform.
Despite the fact that in recent days we have seen a “heat wave” or “heat wave” in Ukraine, and, accordingly, increased evaporation of moisture from the soil, its moisture in most areas under crops, namely early spring, late heat-loving , under winter, remains at a sufficient level. But not everywhere, “she said.
According to the expert, to date, enough moisture is recorded in the fields of western, northern, north-eastern, central regions. As for the south, drought in this region was inevitable, where during the spring there were atypical for this period of time synoptic processes – from late February to early June was dominated by high atmospheric pressure.
“Such conditions have led to the development of drought. Beginning in May, we recorded a drought in the south of the Odessa region, which then spread and deepened. Today we can say that the drought continues in Odesa, Kherson, Zaporizhia, some districts of Dnipropetrovsk and the central districts of Poltava regions, “said T. Adamenko.
According to her, since the harvest has already been formed, the reduction in yield due to drought will not be critical.