Climate changes contribute to the cultivation of cotton in Ukraine, - Hydrometeorological Center

Climatic changes have led to the creation of favorable conditions for growing cotton in Ukraine. It was because of the lack of heat in the south of Ukraine in the 1950s that the cotton cultivation program failed, Tetyana Adamenko, head of the agrometeorology department of the Hydrometeorological Center, told LIGA.net. "For normal ripening, this culture must receive active temperatures of at least 3,600°C during the growing season. But it was colder in those days. And even in Kherson Oblast and Crimea — the southernmost regions of Ukraine — cotton managed to reach 2,700°C – at most 3,000°C. They received poor quality and low yield, which forced them to abandon this direction," she explained. Now the southern regions of Kherson, Mykolaiv, Odesa and Zaporizhzhya regions belong to the thermal zones with the sum of temperatures from 3400°C to 3700°C. "The last 20 years in Ukraine have been an almost continuous period of warming. During this time, there was only one year in which the ...