Mine field: whether wheat will grow on the fields sown by Russian mines

Spring sowing has already begun in Ukraine. But the campaign released from the enemy in question. What is the future expected for contaminated explosive agricultural land? About 40% of the territories occupied by the enemy after February 24, 2022, the Ukrainian army has already been released. However, as the focus was found out in his new review, "less bread. Agrarians sow in the spring and whether the product crisis" is threatened ", the spring sowing will not be possible in all the territories.

In particular in Kharkiv region, which the Armed Forces of Ukraine were released last fall, the situation remains difficult. "The front line has shifted, but to work there is dangerous because of constant shelling. Most fields are replaced. There must Dangerous, " - said Alexander Ovsyanik, director of the Agro -Industrial Department of Agrotrade.

Oleksandr Nechiporenko, Deputy Director of the National Scientific Center "Institute of Agrarian Economics", Executive Director of the Northern Interregional Scientific Center of NAAS confirms that there will be more than a year in the de -mentioned territories. The expert refers to preliminary estimates of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, according to which as of October 2022, about 1.

7 million hectares of Ukrainian land have been contaminated with explosive objects and mines, and the demining of such territory will take at least 10 years. "The possibility of carrying out sowing in de -checked territories will first depend on how close the front line passes and whether the territory is contaminated with explosive objects," comments Petro Melnyk, President of the Ukrainian Agrarian Business Club (UKAB), executive director and co -owner of Agricom Group.

It is a pity, the entire deocutical territory is subject to inspection of the sappers and in a large area it is necessary to carry out exchange work. But mines are not the only problem. After all, according to Alexander Nechiporenko, there is a significant contamination of soil with heavy metals - cadmium, lead, etc. Accordingly, the ecological status of the Ukrainian lands by war will not allow them to be fully used for growing agricultural crops for many years.

In addition, the agricultural producers themselves are faced with significant problems, whose enterprises have experienced occupation and were looted by Russian looters. According to Alexander Buukley, the most common in the liberated territories of agrarians faces the following obstacles: however, in the focus, companies surveyed about positive experiences, which are mainly concerned with the territories that the Armed Forces of Ukraine were released in the spring of 2022.

"In 2022, we were not able to carry out almost 32 thousand hectares of land, first of all, for safety reasons," - said in a comment to the focus Alexander Verzhikhovsky, the operating director of the company IMC. According to the interlocutor of the publication on these lands, during February-March 2022, intense battles were passed and after release before their return to cultivation in the company was the task of the examination for the presence of explosive objects, and if necessary-mine.