Ukraine says it could lose millions of crops after dam collapse – National | 24CA News
Ukraine might lose a number of million tons of crops due to flooding attributable to the destruction of the Kakhovka dam within the south of the nation, the Ukrainian agriculture ministry mentioned on Thursday.
“Without a source of water supply, it is impossible to grow vegetables. Grain and oilseeds will be grown using an extensive model with low yields,” the ministry mentioned in a press release.
The ministry mentioned this week dam’s destruction would flood tens of 1000’s of hectares of agricultural land in southern Ukraine and will flip at the very least 500,000 hectares of land left with out irrigation into “deserts.”
The ministry mentioned the flooded land would require a full agro-ecological evaluation of the soil situation and normally particular soil restoration strategies would have to be utilized.
It mentioned greens, melons, grains and oilseeds have been the primary merchandise which have been grown on the affected land.
Ukraine is a world main grain and oilseeds grower and exporter.
