Farmers must cultivate fewer crops with deep radicular system this year

There is a shortage of moisture in soil starting with the depth of 1 meter and down. Therefore, specialists recommend farmers to cultivate fewer plants with deep radicular system, like the sugar beet and sunflower. “The areas cultivated with sunflower are exaggeratedly large. The sugar beet does not pose a threat as it is cultivated on small areas, in the central and northern parts of the country,” Boris Boincean, division head at the Balti Institute of Field Crop Research “Selectia”, has told Info-Prim Neo. According to the specialist, the crops that will be sown in spring, including corn, barley, oat, and soybean, will be less adapted this year. As the level of moisture is low, there must be grown hybrids and sorts with a shorter ripening period. Boris Boincean said that the farmers must create all the conditions needed to keep the current moisture in soil and to accumulate the rainwater that will fall. This spring the land must not be ploughed. In order to reduce the negative effect of the drought, special attention should be paid to the density of plants that are cultivated. When the density is high, there appear conditions for artificial drought. Mihai Suvac, head of the Agriculture Ministry’s Vegetal Products Market Policy Division, said that the moisture that is now in soil will be enough for the annual plants to grow until harvest. Weather forecasters anticipate a rainy and very late spring.