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Drought Claims Third of Cherkasy Oblast Crop

20 July, 1999 - 00:00

By Yevhen BRUSLYNOVSKY, The Day
Deputy chief of the Cherkasy oblast agro-industrial administration Leonid
Tkachenko told The Day that this year the oblast's grain harvest
will be 25-30% less than planned. The average yield (planned as 32 metric
centners per hectare) will hardly exceed 27 metric centners due to drought.
This is why grain silos could receive even less than 700,000 tons of grain
instead of the expected 784,000 tons.

While relatively good crops are ripening in the western districts of
Shpola, Talne, and Lysianka, central and eastern ones (Drabiv, Chornobayivka,
and Zolotonosha), which traditionally account for the bulk of the harvest,
run the risk of losing the major part of the crop: the ears have not had
enough time to ripen in the scorching sun, and the grain has wrinkled and
dried out.

According to Mr. Tkachenko, the speed of harvesting is also playing
a sinister role: the harvest campaign may be dragged out due to miserable
fuel supplies, and the grain that has not yet burnt up is sure to drop
to the ground, The Day's Yevhen BRUSLYNOVSKY reports.

 

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