Due to the abnormal heat, the prices of watermelons and melons in Ukraine have almost halved

Published 2024년 8월 5일

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The article highlights the challenges faced by Ukrainian farmers due to extreme weather conditions, including heat, rain, and temperature drops, which have adversely affected various crops. The Institute of Agrarian Economics and the Ukrainian Club of Agrarian Business (UKAB) have provided insights into the season's difficulties, particularly affecting root crops, tubers, berries, and cucumbers. The adverse weather has led to lower yields and quality issues in many crop species. Small producers, who lack storage facilities and mainly sell their produce immediately, have been disproportionately affected. Despite the severe weather's impact, which has made cucumbers a key indicator of the broader agricultural market's challenges, it is too early to assess the industry's overall performance. The article emphasizes that consumer notice the effects of the poor weather on different crops later in the season.

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Read also: Ukrainian farmers can receive money for the development of processing of agricultural products "The heat can reduce the quantitative and qualitative parameters of the harvest of root crops and tuber crops, in particular potatoes, carrots, cabbage. At the same time, the losses will not be critical, because certain varieties ripen later. The current season has turned out to be difficult for berry producers. In almost all of their species, the actual yield is lower than expected. And farms specializing in blueberries are still suffering from the hot weather," explains Bohdan Dukhnytskyi from the Institute of Agrarian Economics. "Cucumbers in the group now cost 35-40 hryvnias on average. They, in general, this season gave birth badly. First there were showers, then heat and so on. Such crops are worst affected not so much by rain or heat, but by sharp temperature drops," says Maksym Hopka, analyst of the Association "Ukrainian Club of Agrarian Business" (UKAB). "It is ...

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