Soybean farming in Russia’s not-so-frozen north
Global warming has led to the thawing permafrost becoming fertile soil, with formerly unthinkable crops growing increasingly further north
23 July 2020 - 11:53
Moscow — Just below the Arctic tundra, in the vast plains that blanket much of northern Russia, a once-unthinkable business is taking hold: soybean farming.
It’s the result of years of rising global temperatures, which are thawing the permafrost and turning the land into fertile soil, and now, agronomist Gennady Bochkovsky is helping take the crop to the next frontier, testing whether the beans can handle the upper areas of the Moscow region. So far, he says, the results are promising...
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