Farms in the Kharkiv region without irrigation will have to build a crop rotation based only on winter crops in the future - opinion

Due to the abnormally high temperatures this winter, winter crops in the Kharkiv region continue to vegetate. The increase in average temperatures will contribute to an increase in the area sown under winter crops in the near future. And corn and sunflower will be grown less due to dry conditions in the summer. This was stated by Ivan Bykov, head of the council of honorary chairmen of the public organization “Association of Farms and Landowners of the Kharkiv Region”. Suspilne writes. “We believed that winter crops vegetate when the temperature on the soil surface is 5°C. But today we observe that when the soil temperature is 3°C and for a long period, the plants continue to vegetate and the tillering process is underway,” said Ivan Bykov. He does not remember such a warm winter as this year, and farmers will need to adapt to these weather changes and natural disasters. As an example, the specialist cites the possibility of Indian farmers growing two crops per year. Such an ...