01.04.2025, 21:22

Soil fertility is declining in the occupied Crimea

"This process is not so fast, but over 30 years in Crimea, the percentage of humus has decreased by about 0.5. This is a lot for today, on average we have about 2.5% of humus in total, and it is decreasing - there is such a tendency," said Lyudmila Radchenko, Deputy Director for Scientific Work of the Research Institute of Agriculture of Crimea, which illegally functions on the occupied peninsula, "Candidate of Agricultural Sciences."

Radchenko sees the solution to the problem in the creation of new technologies that will allow not to lose soil fertility and retain moisture.

Yields due to lack of water, of course, also do not increase:

"Not only are spring crops, especially in conditions like this year's, in a critical state, because there is absolutely no moisture in the soil. This is how the problem with their germination begins. But even if they have sprouted, they suffer from a lack of moisture," noted Radchenko.

Earlier, the Voice of Crimea has already written that the lack of water in some settlements of the occupied peninsula is critical. This is reported in local public media daily with water cut-off schedules

The situation with energy supply in Crimea, which we also wrote about, is not better either