Farmers of the right-bank Kherson region plan to increase the area under melons by 1.5-2 times in 2025

Farmers in Ukraine's right-bank Kherson region are planning to increase melon crop acreage by 50-100% for the next year, following a significant increase in demand for the region's watermelons. The current harvest is already seven to eight times larger than the previous year. However, the complete liberation of the left-bank Kherson region is necessary to reach the melon harvest levels preceding the full-scale Russian invasion, due to the unique soil conditions of the region.

Farmers of the right-bank Kherson region plan to increase the area of land for sowing melon crops by one and a half to two times next year. This was reported by IPC-South, citing a statement by the director of the Department of Agriculture of the Kherson Regional Administrative Organization. In 2024, farmers of the region sowed more than 1,000 hectares with melon crops. For comparison, last year, 2023, they harvested only 3 thousand tons of products, and this year 22.5 thousand tons have already been harvested, which is a 7-8-fold increase. Given the high demand for the popular brand "Kherson Watermelon", it is planned to increase the volume of melon crops. "Communicating with those farmers who sowed watermelons this year, they all plan to increase the area. Our Kherson watermelon is very popular, there was a very high demand for it in Kharkiv, Kyiv, and western Ukraine regions. And even when our watermelons had not yet grown in the fields, they had already been purchased by ...