Projects developed under the Agency for Strategic Initiatives program “Adaptation of Russian regions to climate change” are now being implemented throughout the country. There are 42 projects in total, and most of them are designed to reduce damage resulting from high climate risks.
Thus, to combat forest fires, lightning direction finders are created that detect lightning strikes over an area of more than 5 thousand square meters. m, help adjust patrol routes and quickly respond to fires. The technology has already been tested in the Irkutsk region and the Republic of Buryatia.
In the Leningrad region, they concentrated on the “rehabilitation” of areas where peat was being mined. They are periodically flooded, and fires are common here. But in the future, these lands can also be put into economic use.
In the Kaluga region they are developing a geoinformation service that will allow storing information and predicting climate risks and damage.
More than 60 percent of potatoes were planted in the fields of Stavropol
In the region, potato planting was completed on an area of over 3,5 thousand hectares. This volume is 61% of the planned volume. According to the regional Minister of Agriculture Sergei...