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Authors: 超级管理员 | Edit: xingqiang

Russia shows average crop condition during the monitoring period. The planting of spring crops (spring wheat and barley) and summer crops(maize, rapeseed and soybean) will start after April.

The weather condition during the first months of the year was dry and mild with rainfall down 13%, temperature up 0.7 degrees, and a PAR increase of 3%, compared with the thirteen-year average.

The fraction of cropped arable land in this period increased as much as 28.2% compared with the last five-year average, indicating an increasing area of winter wheat. The overall crop condition is satisfactorywith VCIx valued 0.73. Large below-average areas can be observed in the northo f the Central Region, Volga Region and Urals Region (including Tverskaya Oblast,Yaroslavskaya Oblast, Ivanovskaya Oblast, Nizhegorodskaya Oblast, TatarstanRep., and the border between Chelyabinskaya Oblast and Kurganskaya Oblast),which mainly corresponds with uncropped arable land. The NDVI developmentprofile showed the country average NDVI was slightly below average in Januaryand February, but favorable in March and remaining average ever since. TheSouthern Region of Russia (including Rostovskaya Oblast, Krasnodarskiy Kray,Stavropolskiy Kray and north of Dagestan Rep.) presented below averagecondition before mid-February but recovered and did well in March, while othercropped areas maintained good condition through the whole period. Average togood yields can be expected for the winter crop in Russia.


Figure 3.27. Russia crop condition, Jan-Apr 2014


       

(a) Crop condition development graph based on NDVI                     (b) Maximum VCI

(c) Spatial NDVI patterns compared to 5YA                           d) NDVI profiles