There are already problems now. There is no official information on this yet, but it is quite possible that strong winds blew away part of the spring crops – sugar beet, the earliest spring crop. This year its sowing started later than usual due to a number of reasons – both economic and weather-climatic. In the latter case, farmers delayed the beginning of the sowing season, as they feared the death of crops from late spring frosts (which, incidentally, last year killed about 5 thousand hectares of sugar beet crops). Frosts are predicted, but it is not certain yet. But there is already a strong wind. And in Moldova there was already a case a few years ago, when the wind blew away about 1.5 thousand hectares of sugar beet crops.
According to the observations of agricultural producers, by the time of the announcement of the “yellow code” beet growers in Moldova managed to sow sugar beet for the harvest-2026 about 1-1.2 thousand hectares.
The strong wind brings another, not potential, but guaranteed threat – drying of the top (sowing) layer of soil. This means that farmers will have to deepen crops – sow closer to the moist layer of soil. And deep sowing means later sprouts and the risk that they will appear when Moldova is hot and dry in summer.
On the positive side, meteorologists promise light precipitation for the next few days. If they do fall, they will wet the sowing layer. But, probably, it will delay the time of sowing equipment going into the field.
