Known as the black gold of agriculture, chernozem soil reaches depths of one meter and helped turn Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan into strategic global breadbaskets
The first thing you notice isn’t the wheat. It’s the smell. A sweet, almost chocolatey scent rising from a freshly plowed field on the outskirts of Poltava, in central Ukraine. The farmer scoops up a handful of soil, lets it crumble through his fingers, and grins like he’s showing off a bar of pure gold. … Read more