Thanks to climate change, Polissia, the northern swath of Ukraine along the Belarus border, has started to grow crops traditionally associated with southern Ukraine

Thanks to climate change, Polissia, the northern swath of Ukraine along the Belarus border, has started to grow crops traditionally associated with southern Ukraine, Serhiy Ryzhuk, director of the Polissia Institute of Agriculture, tells Ukrinform. “Due to climate change, uncharacteristic crops came to us in Polissya,” says Ryzhuk, whose institute is part of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences. “If before flax, hops, potatoes, rye, millet, buckwheat were grown, now corn, soybeans, rapeseed and sunflowers have appeared here.”