Ukraine in new issues: Due to the fall apart of the dam, they may be threatened with the lack of tens of millions of tons of crops

Ukraine could lose numerous million heaps of crops because of the destruction of the Kahovka dam in the south of the united states of america, the Ukrainian Ministry of Agriculture warned on Tuesday.

“Without water deliver, it's miles impossible to grow greens. Grain and oilseeds can be grown the use of an in depth version with low yields,” the ministry stated in a declaration.

The ministry warned this week that heaps of hectares of agricultural land in southern Ukraine will be flooded because of the destruction of the dam, and that as a minimum 500,000 hectares of land could become a “desolate tract” within the absence of irrigation.

According to the ministry, an assessment of the rural-ecological condition of the soil at the flooded land will should be done, and in most cases soil restoration techniques will ought to be applied.

Vegetables, melons, grain and oilseeds had been primarily grown inside the affected place.

Ukraine is one of the leading manufacturers and exporters of grain and oilseeds.