Forecast: what will be the harvest of fruits and grains in Crimea

The Republic of Crimea will collect no less than one and a half million tons of grain. This is the minimum that we unconditionally count on, and which we will provide with almost one hundred percent probability.he said.

Also, a representative of the relevant ministry clarified that the sowing of early spring crops in the region has almost been completed: barley, oats.

Speaking about plans for the harvest of fruit and stone fruit crops, the deputy minister noted that farmers expect to harvest at least 200 thousand tons of fruit and berry products in case of favorable weather conditions.

In addition, he said that the vegetable harvest is protected, since vegetables in Crimea are grown under energy-efficient drip irrigation, “so the presence or absence of precipitation will not have any significant impact on this group of crops,” he concluded.

In Crimea early stone fruits bloom crops: plum, cherry plum and almond. Negative temperatures can harm the future harvest if they last two to three hours and reach two degrees below zero, as previously reported.

In the Republican Ministry of Agriculture also reportedthat in Crimea, sharp temperature changes and high air humidity led to the development of a number of diseases of winter grain crops. As noted in the comment RIA Novosti Crimea Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, Deputy Director of the Research Institute of Agriculture of Crimea Lyudmila Radchenko, many agricultural enterprises did not have time to treat crops with fungicides and herbicides due to rains. Therefore, in many fields the weed is already overtaking winter crops. But, on the other hand, precipitation now is exactly what the crops need.

source: RIA Novosti Crimea