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the First of may in the Stavropol region have introduced a state of emergency due to drought and loss of crops. Warm winter, and then April frost struck the crops, which agricultural lands are the main exports. Authorities in the region predicted reduction in grain yield was 20 to 30 percent, and when you consider that last year it collected a little more than 10 million tons, then this can be short about three million.

– we Have a brutal soil drought. The main stem with a frozen ear and the side can not develop due to the fact that there’s no moisture. After the first wave of frosts we have made growth stimulants, and now everything just fades away. Recently fell to five millimetres of rain – enough for two days – said the agronomist-seed grower from St. George’s district Anne Palankin.

a severe drought is confirmed by the data of remote sensing of the Earth, they contain information about the development of vegetation in March – April 2020 and dynamics in comparison with previous years. The analysis is carried out by officers of the Department of satellite monitoring technologies of the space research Institute of RAS with the information service VEGA Pro.

“In mid-April 2020 the minimum observed soil moisture in most regions of Stavropol and Krasnodar krais, the Republic of Crimea and in the South of Rostov region. About the aridity evidenced by a vast area from decadal values of hydrothermal coefficient (SCC) of less than 0.6. The situation is exacerbated by insufficient rainfall,” – said in the Institute’s study.

the May rains seem to have improved the situation, but they saved only those crops that still have a pulse, dead stems have any help it was impossible.

in rains for spring crops – sunflower (they occupied 300 thousand hectares), maize (200 thousand), peas and sugar beet. It saved us the trouble of having to forage, – said the Minister of agriculture of the region Vladimir Sitnikov.

In the Stavropol research Institute of agriculture, which is part of the North Caucasus Federal agricultural research centre, said that the drought this year – the strongest over the past 60 years. The monitoring showed that seven percent of acreage crop had already died, 22 per cent (447 thousand hectares) is in poor condition and 15 percent in critical. The damage estimate at least a billion rubles.

the inhabitants of the region Need food grain is a little more than 700 thousand tons, a large part of crop harvested is sold to other regions of Russia and for export, the volume of which this season may be reduced. Without bread this year we will not stay. Crops in many areas of the province are in a satisfactory condition, besides, grain elevators and specialized warehouses farms still kept the last year’s grain reserves, – said the first Deputy Chairman of the government of Stavropol Nicholas Velikdan.

because of the drought, the authorities have gone to drastic measures in the region to cause rain by aircraft. From the regional budget it is allocated 40 million roubles. Technology is a “seeding” clouds with ice-forming reagents. Thus caused by the rains should fall over the territory of half a million hectares in the arid regions of Stavropol, where the moisture content of arable land is critically low. With the help of aviation seasonal sediment layer can be increased by 10-30 percent, but it is clear that it will not save the farmers, so there is hope for nature and for land reclamation.

Now the region’s total area is reclaimed land is 214 thousand hectares, but actually irrigated 58 thousand, including 28 thousands of a modern sprinkler. Before APK edge costs to 2024 to increase the irrigated area by 100 thousand. So, in 2019, reclamation systems have earned 15 thousand hectares.

– the development of a meliorative complex in the current year allocated more than one billion rubles – 30 per cent more than in 2019 is Planned to implement 19 projects worth 1.8 billion on a total area of nine thousand hectares. Speaking about water production, it can be noted that the river provided it for 80-100 percent of the plan. The water content of the main canals from 70 to 100 percent. Stavropol eight major reservoirs are filled to 60-95 percent. Disruptions in the supply of water no, – said the head of the agricultural Department of the region.

the plan included irrigation of 70 thousand hectares of agricultural land, regular irrigation is almost 58 thousands hectares of arable land. Advance been cleared Stavropol channels with a length of almost 1.5 thousand kilometers. So, on the Right-Egorlykskaya channel (the most important man-made waterway of the Stavropol territory, Izobilnensky passes, Trunovskiy, Krasnogvardeisky, Ipatovsky and Apanasenkovskogo area) before the start of the irrigation season had the whole complex of works to increase capacity. Including cleared the stream from the algae and silt that will allow the flow of water at the level of design capacity is 45 cubic meters per second. In the region are now developing irrigation schedules and deal with unauthorized water withdrawal from irrigation networks.

the government of the province formed a group to develop approaches to the development of agriculture under new climatic trend with the subsequent preparation of relevant proposals to the Federal center.

– Today, we need to understand clearly how we will deliver water for our farmers and engineers, to ensure the water supply to the settlements and ne thus depend on the vagaries of the weather, – said the head of the region Vladimir Vladimirov.

– In conditions of severe drought in the region, we face new challenges that need to be addressed. This created operational headquarters. I would like to emphasize that the reduction of programs to support irrigators will not, – said Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on agrarian issues Alexei Lavrinenko.

Stavropol authorities sent to the government a package of proposals on support for the affected farmers. Among them – the provision of additional limit of soft loans for farmers and rollover of existing loans. Also, the issue of exemption of farmers from payment of advance tax payments on property tax and land tax for the year 2020.

Besides, already solved in seven of the most arid areas of the region to pereseyat of the fields that suffered most. From the reserve Fund of Stavropol farmers will allocate one billion rubles.

Weather anomalies have highlighted the issue of agricultural insurance in the region. Last year in the Soviet city district the farm from the drought killed the wheat crop. Then the company received from the insurers 20 million rubles. All the damage is not covered, however, allowed to quietly make plans for next year. But, as noted by the head of Department of agriculture district Alexey Tabernakul, not all farmers fully understand the insurance mechanism. In particular, those who participate in the state program of agricultural insurance, half the cost of the insurance is paid by the Ministry of agriculture of the Stavropol territory. In 2020, it allocated about 350 million rubles.

the Special Board of Roshydromet arrived in the Stavropol region to help farmers in the province to overcome the drought. This was announced by the Governor of the region Vladimir Vladimirov.

“It’s a real meteolaboratory on the Yak-42D. Its experts know how to influence the weather, to artificially increase the amount of rainfall. Now in the region rains, but not everywhere. Active influence on weather should increase the monthly norm of precipitation around 30 percent where it is now especially necessary.”

As reported on the website of Roshydromet, aircraft laboratory equipped with modern equipment that can measure and record a variety of parameters of atmosphere and underlying surface temperature and humidity, speed and wind direction, turbulence, concentration of gas and aerosol impurities in the atmosphere, long-wave and short-wave solar radiation and the radiation from the underlying surface, the microphysical structure and cloud water content and electrical characteristics of the atmosphere, radar uragement clouds. Aircraft VOO��angling for influence on clouds (apparatus for spraying liquid nitrogen and shooting Pyros with silver iodide) and is equipped with means of communication with ground-based information and control centers.