KYIV, June 6 - One of the terrible results of the blowing up of Kakhovka hydroelectric power station will be more than 20,000 hectares of agricultural land taken out of operation for many years, on which Ukrainian vegetable growing was concentrated, says Vadym Dudka, the director of the largest consulting vegetable growing company in Ukraine Agroanalysis LLC, whose main office before the war was in Kakhovka.

"If earlier we hoped that the restoration of the main vegetable-growing region after its liberation from occupation would take about three years, which would be spent on demining and restoring the material and technical base of agricultural enterprises, now we can say that the minimum restoration period is five years," predicts the director.