As a result of the frosts, 12% of sugar beet crops were affected.

Agricultural producers have begun to calculate the consequences of the frosts that continue in Russia. In April and May, they caused damage to sugar beet crops on an area of more than 120 thousand hectares, Andrei Bodin, chairman of the Board of the Union of Sugar Producers of the Russian Federation (Soyuzrossakhar), told Izvestia.

Cold and green: up to 40% of the fruit harvest may be lost in the south of the Russian Federation due to frosts

Apricots, peaches and cherries suffered the most from the weather.

"Of course, there will be a re-sowing, we have the seeds for this. A situation survey is currently underway on the ground. But personally, we don't see any risks for the harvest and the country's sugar supply," the business representative explained.

According to the union, crops in the Belgorod and Lipetsk regions suffered the most from frosts. In addition, the authorities of the Kursk region announced the death of this vegetable crop on an area of 2.5 thousand hectares. At the same time, on May 5, 2025, as reported in Soyuzerossakhar, farmers sowed just over 1 million hectares of sugar beet.

In addition, as a result of low temperatures, 50% of the harvest of fruit trees (apricots, cherries, peaches, plums) was at risk of loss Stavropol Territory, the authorities of the subject reported. To a lesser extent, apple and pear trees suffered from low temperatures. The assessment of damage to agriculture in the region continues.

Crop losses of fruit trees are also recognized in the Krasnodar Territory and the Crimea, but damage estimates vary there. As the head of the Union of Horticulturalists of Russia in the Crimea, Tatiana Oleinik, told Izvestia, the death of the stone fruit crop can be up to 40%. But in the Krasnodar Territory, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, they can reach up to 15%.

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Frost is not the sun: frosts destroyed 12% of sugar beet crops