Ukraine: Climate change increases fruit and vegetable yields by 15-20%

Young Ukraine reports. It is noted that in the Kherson region, the climatic conditions are already similar to the subtropics, and local farmers are well aware of this, who had to adjust the list of grown products in favor of more thermophilic crops. The driest summer of 2020 over the past 150 years has proven the feasibility of adapting ziziphus, almonds, pomegranates, bananas, figs and various citrus fruits in southern Ukraine. “The climate in Ukraine is changing even faster than global warming is taking place,” says Tatiana Adamenko, head of the agrometeorology department of the Ukrhydrometeorological Center. "If the average world temperature rise today is 1.1 ° C, then in Ukraine this figure reaches almost 1.5 ° C, and over the past decade, the air temperature in our country has generally risen by 2 ° C." The subtropical climate of the Kherson region allows farmers to harvest two or three crops of such traditional crops as onions, carrots, potatoes, watermelons, melons and ...