The impact of regional climate change on the irrigation mode of fruit and vegetable crops in the south of Ukraine

Abstract

The extraordinary changeability of the quantitative parameters and variants of combining agro-meteorological factors in the years and regions causes considerable fluctuations of yields, and the level of using agro-meteorological resources in production conditions does not exceed 40–60%. R. Williams stated that “climate factors in our country, taken as a whole, are determining in the problem of crop productivity. They are stronger than economy, stronger than machinery”. Under conditions of climate transformations the Fourth International Conference of European Academy of Science importance of irrigation as a stabilizing factor of agrarian production is considerably increasing.