The crops of winter rape in Ukraine suffer from drought and disease
In Ukraine as of October 15, winter rape sown 1,045 million hectares, or 97,4% of the target. Sowing was conducted in dry season of August and September, and recent precipitation were not able to significantly improve the condition of crops. Some of them will be lost because of the lack of stairs, the other part is lagging behind in development due to the lack of precipitation and decreasing temperature, and in some places frost.
Frosts on the soil surface and the lowest average air temperature in first decade of October from damaging the germination of winter crops, however, have slowed their development. Most adverse agrometeorology developed in Cherkasy region, where lack of moisture has led to unsatisfactory (1-8 mm) of moisture in topsoil, and in some regions the soil is generally dry. According to the Ukrainian hydrometeorological condition of soil moisture in the field is atypical and the worst over the last 30 years.
the Recent precipitation has significantly improved the situation in the whole country and replenished the soil moisture reserves. The increase in air temperature and soil moisture contributed to the grain programovani and getting the stairs on the majority of areas.
Farmers report that after the weather conditions on crops in some places recorded diseases such as Phoma, Alternaria blight, rot, powdery mildew and others. The spread of powdery mildew and Alternaria observed in the Central and southern regions, phomosis, mostly in the West and the rotten existing plants in the Northern, Western and Central regions. Through for protection and treatment of crops, producers are forced to actively pursue fungicidal treatment.
a Decline in prices for canola compared to last season, and dry weather during the planting season prevented farmers to sow canola in volumes last year, when it was 1.3 million ha planted In this area to harvest and gross harvest in 2020 could substantially be reduced in case of adverse for the plants development weather.
