The Kakhovka reservoir is a source of recharge for 584,000 hectares of land, which is supplied with water for irrigation, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy said.
State property losses of reclamation systems and canals due to the destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station amounted to 150-160 billion hryvnias. The exact data will be determined only after the de-occupation of the territories, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy reported on Monday, June 12.
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The department assumed that the reclamation systems after the explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station would be damaged or destroyed by the Russians.
“If the source of water supply is not restored, it will be impossible to talk about irrigated agriculture in the south of Ukraine in the near future,” the report said.
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy recalled that the Kakhovka reservoir is a source of irrigation for 94% of systems in Kherson, 74% in Zaporozhye and 30% in Dnipropetrovsk regions.
The Kakhovka reservoir is a source of regeneration for 584 thousand hectares of land, supplied with water for irrigation. In particular, the main Kakhovka canal served 326 thousand hectares, the North Crimean – 39.7 thousand hectares of agricultural land.
In addition, a number of systems in Zaporozhye, Kherson and Dnipropetrovsk regions carried out a separate use of water from the Kakhovka reservoir for a total irrigation area of 218.3 thousand hectares.
Earlier it became known that in the south of Ukraine 350 pumping stations, reclamation canals with a total length of more than 1100 km were left without irrigation sources. Water intake pipes are no longer submerged in water, but “hang” in the air.
Source: korrespondent
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