Ukrainian farmers have significantly increased the purchase of watermelon seeds; the area will increase by 3-4 times

Over the past two years, watermelon has become quite a popular crop in Ukraine. Due to the temporary occupation of the left bank of the Kherson region, where there was one of the main watermelon centers, farmers began to massively grow melons in almost all regions of Ukraine, and they showed good yield results, writes AgroPortal.ua. Evgeniy Kolinko, Head of Marketing for Vegetable Seeds at Syngenta in Ukraine, spoke about this during the online meeting “If everyone sows watermelons? Will you make money from melons and melons this year? The specialist noted that last year was very fruitful for watermelons. Farmers, using proven technologies, drip irrigation, harvested only 10 t/ha and were profitable. Whereas this is a critically low yield for watermelon. Typically, top melon and melon farmers harvest from 50 to 80 tons/ha of watermelons. Read also: Farmers of the Kherson region (Ukraine) will expand the area under watermelons to 1 thousand hectares However, last season, says ...