Mined fields are the biggest challenge of the second year of a full-scale invasion for Ukrainian farmers, because the latter literally risk their own lives. The projected figure of agricultural land in Ukraine that fall under the definition of “need to be examined for the presence of contamination by mines and explosive objects” and which can currently be accessed (we are not talking about areas that are directly in the war zone, or temporarily occupied), 2.6 million hectares.
This was stated by Denys Bashlyk, Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine for Digital Development, Digital Transformations and Digitalization.
At the same time, he adds that when conducting a non-technical survey of these lands, the total area for demining may be reduced by 70%.
Kherson and Mykolaiv are priority
If we talk about geography, then agricultural land for survey falls in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions. And in the last two, the situation is the most critical, so the regions, according to Denys Bashlyk, will be a priority.
“The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, for its part, took the initiative to ensure that the lands in the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions where vegetables are grown were a priority this spring and farmers could process them,” he states.
Source: Agroportal.ua
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