Determination of economic losses on agricultural land in connection with hostilities on the example of the territory of Kyivska oblast in Ukraine

Abstract

Aim of the study: The aim of the study is a determination of economic losses on agricultural land (arable land) that have been affected by hostilities and need further measures to demine them and to make them suitable for safe food production in order to resolve the acute humanitarian and food crisis. Material and methods: The generally accepted methods of scientific research are used: monographic, statistical, analytical, method of comparison, method of interpolation, forecasting, abstract-logical and engraving. Results and conclusions: Economic losses caused by hostilities on the example of the agricultural land (arable land) in Kyivska oblast in Ukraine were calculated. The spatial aspect of administrative-territorial reform carried out in Ukraine in terms of changes to the number of administrative districts and their area was considered. This reform was done in order to be able to work with the data on agricultural land collected for both new and old administrative-territorial divisions of Kyivska oblast. The approximate duration of demining works on territories affected by hostilities was considered, taking into account various degrees of shelling intensity and demining works complexity. The unearned income of agricultural producers within cereals, legumes and oilseeds in Kyivska oblast were calculated. The calculations of economic losses associated with the cost of demining works and the impossibility of growing crops in Kyivska oblast were made. Results obtained for Kyivska oblast were interpolated in order to determine the approximate area of arable land affected by hostilities and therefore economic losses on this land throughout Ukraine.

Keywords

• crop production
• demining
• humanitarian and food crisis
• land contamination
• sown area