{"id":8553,"date":"2020-08-20T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T08:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uabio.org\/?p=8553"},"modified":"2020-09-04T12:24:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T09:24:54","slug":"globalne-poteplinnya-vzhe-v-ukrayini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uabio.org\/en\/news\/8553\/","title":{"rendered":"Global warming is already in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uabio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/7565344-22638.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8555\" width=\"331\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uabio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/7565344-22638.png 800w, https:\/\/uabio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/7565344-22638-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Drought destroys sunflower crops in southern Ukraine&#8221;, &#8220;The Ministry of Economy has lowered the forecast of grain harvest&#8221; \u2014 just a few headlines in recent days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The south of Ukraine is losing sunflowers. THREE LOWER YIELD is the maximum that farmers can count on. Due to this year&#8217;s drought, the crop is simply burning. Those farms that have already begun to harvest, receive at best about 0.6 t \/ ha. Such volumes do not recoup the money invested, but farmers are happy about it because some fields are lost altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Position of scientists:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The south of Ukraine has always been a zone of risky agriculture. Not much can be expected with climate change.<\/li><li>The farmers themselves contributed to crop failures. They often violate crop rotation. And this dries the soil.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Economy has adjusted the projected grain production for all categories of the 2020 harvest downwards \u2014 from 72.1 million tons to about 70 million tons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A significant decrease in yield is observed in Cherkasy (234 thousand hectares), Kirovohrad (146.7 thousand hectares), and Poltava (120.5 thousand hectares) regions. In general, the estimated loss of corn throughout Ukraine may amount to about 2 million tons.<\/p><cite>Ministry of Economy<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukraine is beginning to suffer direct economic losses from global warming, and these losses will only increase if humanity does not start reducing greenhouse gas emissions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The EU has officially approved a plan to transform into a zone with zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 (Green Deal). Moreover, some components of this plan (hydrogen strategy, biodiversity strategy) have already been developed and funds (about 1000 billion euros) have been allocated for its implementation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ukraine urgently needs its Green Deal!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the materials:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2Q95etZ\" target=\"_blank\">The Ministry of Economy has lowered the forecast of the grain harvest<\/a> (in Ukrainian);<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3aFqeBM\" target=\"_blank\">Drought destroys sunflower crops in southern Ukraine<\/a> (in Ukrainian).<\/li><li><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Drought destroys sunflower crops in southern Ukraine&#8221;, &#8220;The Ministry of Economy has lowered the forecast of grain harvest&#8221; \u2014 just a few headlines in recent days. The south of Ukraine is losing sunflowers. THREE LOWER YIELD is the maximum that farmers can count on. Due to this year&#8217;s drought, the crop is simply burning. Those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uabio-news","category-news"],"views":348,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uabio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uabio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uabio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uabio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uabio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uabio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uabio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uabio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uabio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uabio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}