Farmers from Ukraine’s southern regions will need at least eight years to return production to pre-war levels.

According to the Ukrainian Agrarian Council, this will not possible until the Kakhovka HPP’s reconstruction. This amount of time will be needed because it will take five years to restore the station, and it will take another two to three years for farmers to reach pre-war indicators.

The Deputy Chairman of the Agrarian Council, Denys Marchuk, says that it will be complicated for farmers in the south to grow vegetables without irrigation. Before the full-scale invasion, a significant part of the borscht set was supplied  from the Kherson region, and early vegetables came from the Zaporizhzhia region.

According to the expert, farmers on the left bank of the Kherson region will suffer the most because of the Kakhovka HPP disaster, and it is too early to talk about damages before the region’s liberation. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, about 10,000 hectares of land have been flooded on the right bank of the river.