“We plan to sow 20 million hectares, like last year. But we are sowing practically in sand in the hope that it will rain.”

Russian Agriculture Minister Oksana Lut urged people to go to church and pray for rain as the persistent lack of precipitation puts the sowing of winter wheat at risk.

  • thetreesaysbarkEnglish
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    2 days ago

    If that belief held, based on Ukraine’s statistics, it would be permanent rain now and for the next century or so.