Drought in southern, central and eastern Ukraine can lead to losses of up to half of grain harvests, warns the All-Ukrainian Agrarian Rada, or VAR. Wheat and barley are the most affected by the lack of rain, according to a Rada member survey. Nikolai Gursky, director of Lyudmila farm in Khmelnytskiy, said: “The last rain in our district passed 2-3 weeks ago, and then it was very weak. It soaked the soil no more than 2-3 cm. This is the only rain since winter.” For his farms, he predicted soy losses of 20% and wheat losses of 30%. Alexander Doroshenko, director of Terra farms in Dnipropetrovsk region predicted his crop losses at 50%.
Drought in southern, central and eastern Ukraine can lead to losses of up to half of grain harvests
