This year, farmers in the region will allocate about 1,8 million hectares for spring crops, and over 1 million hectares of farmland for industrial crops.
Today, almost 890 thousand hectares are sown with spring crops in the region, or more than 50% of the planned area. Rostov farmers managed to plant vegetables and potatoes on an area of 6 thousand hectares, which is 47% of the plan.
The threat of drought remains in southern Russia
In the Southern and North Caucasus Federal Districts, reduced moisture content of the topsoil is observed. Such data appeared in the agrometeorological review of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia....