NASA-backed researchers say that millions of acres of farmland have been abandoned due to the conflict.
million acres of prime farmland have been abandoned as a result of the war since 2021. The abandoned fields represent between 6.5 and 8.5%The losses represent"a massive amount of land," says Inbal Becker-Reshef, the program director for NASA Harvest and a research professor at the University of Maryland and the University of Strasbourg in France.
Looking at where the harvest stops,"it is a real, stunningly sharp edge," says Josef Wagner, a graduate student at the University of Strasbourg who's working on the Harvest team."When you look at the images, you can draw the line where it's cultivated and where it's not." Often, he thinks that line is determined by whether a field is in the range of enemy shelling.Ukrainian soldiers patrol with a howitzer near the frontline on July 01, 2023.
In the case of Ukraine, much of the ordnance is being fired over vast sections of rural land. As a result, shells are landing in random fields throughout the countryside."The mass of metal flying each way is phenomenal," says Patrick Hinton, an officer in the British Army's Royal Artillery and a recent visiting fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a London-based defense think tank.
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