Soy is a crop suitable for cultivation in not all regions of Ukraine

In the South and East of Ukraine, growing soybeans is a very risky option. Serhii Avramenko, Dr. of Sciences, chief researcher of the Institute of Plant Breeding named after V.Ya. Yuryev National Academy of Sciences. The scientist showed the state of soybeans on the example of a field in the Kharkiv region. “The fact is that last year 2023, as well as 2022, we had good rainfall. Growing soybeans last year was very profitable. And, even in our east, where very little soybean is sown, farmers were tempted and increased the area in 2024, expecting that this year the amount of precipitation will be sufficient. But this did not happen," says Serhii Avramenko. According to him, plants vegetate mainly at the expense of soil moisture, which is still left over from the winter period. In addition to the lack of precipitation, the air temperature was very high, the atmospheric humidity was very low. And in conditions of low atmospheric humidity, soybeans never provide high yields. In the ...