Abnormally high temperatures were recorded in the Novosibirsk region during the first week of June, the authorities were ready to introduce an emergency regime.
Alexei Salnikov, Chairman of the Council of the Association of Peasants (Farmers) and Agricultural Cooperatives of the Novosibirsk Region (AKKON), told Sibkray.ru that the situation is indeed critical.
“The fact is that the moisture reserve has remained very small since last autumn, in winter almost all the snow that fell from the fields also flew away, we didn’t get it into the soil, and there hasn’t been a single productive rain since the beginning of sowing. On June 7, according to the reports in our group, they called out who had what kind of precipitation: someone writes 2 millimeters of precipitation fell, someone - three millimeters. It's practically non-productive. Therefore, all sorts of associated diseases are rampant - in particular, a flea on rapeseed, and cereals dry up completely. So the picture is scary. I personally have never seen anything like this in 31 years of work in the field. We wait. Hope dies last. We expect that in the next day or two there will be precipitation and the situation will turn in the right direction, ”said Salnikov.
According to the chairman of the AKCON council, rains are needed in the very near future and their intensity should be very high.
“Today, in the meter layer, in the field horizon, moisture is not felt, it is not there. And to connect these horizons, imagine how active the rains must be. Haymaking is now one hundred percent under threat. In practice, there will be no more hay, you can see it. Corn - she is again waiting for the rains. That is, all crops for silage and haylage are waiting for the rains. There will be no ear, the plant itself will not grow without precipitation. As for watering machines, they are usually on vegetable crops. On crops, they were never intended. But 80% of vegetable growers do not have watering machines. And they suffer in the same way - the potatoes are fried, do not rise, the potatoes are boiled in the hot ground, - he said.
The Novosibirsk hydrometeorological center Sibkray.ru reported that from June 9, the heat wave in the Novosibirsk region will subside - rains are expected, which will be accompanied by squally winds and a decrease in temperature.