Coriander and wheat to replace rice in Crimea

Crimean enterprises which previously grew rice, have begun growing wheat and coriander after Ukraine cut off the North Crimean channel. This was announced by the head of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic, Vitaly Polishchuk.

In the Krasnoperekopskiy district rice fields yielded a good crop, which can be explained, according to the minister, by the fact that they had been fertilized well. In the area of ​​the Nizhnegorsky district the harvest was small.

"The Ministry established a working group, we are trying to find out the reasons for the low crop yield in the rice-growing areas,’ News of the Crimea quotes Polishchuk as saying.