The government has approved a plan to demine agricultural land for the sowing campaign.
The Ministry of Defence reports this.
It is assumed that survey and demining activities will be carried out first in the oblasts where the problem of land contamination is most urgent and the clean-up of farmland is the most economically feasible.
In total, according to preliminary data, about 470,000 hectares of agricultural land in Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Chernihiv, and Cherkasy oblasts need to be surveyed and possibly demined.
Previously. Mind reported that more than 5 million hectares of agricultural land were unusable due to the war. They are mined, contaminated with explosive remnants, or are subject to hostilities.