The map above shows how each Ukrainian oblast’s spring planting compares to 2021’s growing season. Most of these oblasts are in northern Ukraine along the Russian and Belarus borders, where Russian forces started their invasion.
The oblasts, or regions, with the biggest difference in acreage planted between 20 are: Kyle Tapley, Maxar meteorologistĬompared to 2021, farmers planted 30% less acreage in 2022, a difference of more than 5,800,000 hectares (14.3 million acres). With the Russian invasion affecting spring crop planting in Ukraine, Maxar’s WeatherDesk used proprietary processing to project that farmers might harvest up to 50% fewer crops this fall compared to 2021. There are many factors that disrupted this year’s planting season, including farmers who left the fields to defend their country, farmers who couldn’t plant due to fighting in the area, and the availability of seeds. Ukraine usually plants corn and sunflowers in April and May for harvesting in September and October. Russians continue to take grain from Ukraine and transport it to other regions of the world.WeatherDesk predicts the 2022 production of corn to be down 54% and production of sunflowers to be down 40% when compared with the 2021 growing season.Compared to 2021, Ukrainian farmers planted 30% less spring acreage in 2022.
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Maxar’s WeatherDesk, an on-demand product that transforms regularly changing weather data into actionable insights, used MODIS imagery from NASA and analyzed normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) time series data to develop the below assessment of Ukraine’s crops as of early June 2022. But, Ukraine’s claim as the “breadbasket of Europe” is threatened by Russia’s invasion, which started in February 2022 and is disrupting the planting of spring crops and the shipping of existing grain inventories. Ukraine’s Minister of Agrarian Policy promoted the country’s agriculture capabilities in a March 2021 Atlantic Council article: the country’s active agricultural area is larger than Italy and it is one of the world’s top three grain exporters.
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