Agrometeorology: to sow rapeseed, it is essential to moisten the soil

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They wrote: the dry, hot weather continued for the past week, the amount of precipitation for the past thirty days was only between 2 and 15 millimeters in a large part of the Great Plain and the southeast of the Transdanubia, but in some places not even that much fell. 20-60 millimeters fell mainly in the northern and northwestern regions, but this is also much less than the average for many years.

The drought continued to increase, and now the vast majority of Hungary has a high or severe drought

The part of the soil close to the surface in the eastern and southeastern two-thirds of the country is extremely dry and dusty, it contains some moisture only in the areas affected by heavy rains in the first half of last week, the middle and deeper soil layer is critically dry. The effects of the drought were aggravated by weather that was 6-9 degrees Celsius warmer than usual, the average temperature was between 23-28 degrees last week. The vegetation is about three weeks ahead of normal in its development, to which the drought also adds to the forced ripening of field crops. because of The sunflower and corn stocks are fully ripe, dried up, and are being harvested.

MTI