Ukraine: Almonds and pineapples are already planted in Kherson region instead of corn and wheat

About it writes propozitsiya.com. The driest summer of the last 150 years in the summer of 2020 proved the feasibility of adapting jujube, almonds, pomegranates, bananas, figs and various citrus fruits in the south of Ukraine. "The climate in Ukraine is changing even faster than global warming is taking place in the world," said Tetyana Adamenko, head of the agrometeorology department at Ukrhydrometcenter. "If the average global temperature rise today is 1.1 ° C, in Ukraine this figure is almost 1.5 ° C, and over the last decade the air temperature in our country has risen by 2 ° C." At present, the weather in Ukraine as a whole is similar to the climate of southern Ukraine in the 60s and 80s, but residents of the Black Sea regions of the country celebrate unprecedentedly hot days in summer, quite warm in winter. In Kherson, Mykolaiv and Odesa oblasts the number of sunny days increased and the number of precipitations decreased significantly. The subtropical climate of Kherson ...