Note the soil quality in Ukraine. Even Germans stole it during WWII.
I am also surprised that soil in EU is generally crap except of Romania and few adjacent places.
Source? This map is completely wrong for Sweden at least. The governments agricultural land classification has the best land in Skåne in southern Sweden. By far.
What happened to Wales?
Dayum Romania is going strong on this one!
It was always a mystery to me why best traditional cuisine is in countries with the worst soil (southern Europe) while the worst cuisine in countries with good soil (eastern Europe). Should be kinda opposite.
I’d guess this map is skewed by Ukrainian ‘black earth’; mostly everywhere looks bad relative to that.
I’m still surprised by how poor Spain is, I thought that’s where ancient Rome’s wheat came from? Ok, it’s better than almost all of Italy, but the land that’s now modern France or the Balkans, Hungary, Romania, etc. would surely be better places for agriculture?
Damn romania you get it
And yet every vegetable and fruit that comes out of Greek soil is top notch quality, as tasty as it gets. How is this possible?
Strange, the middle area of west coast of Finland, with those patches of “very poor” soil, is considered the breadbasket of Finland.
Soil quality for growing what? Different types of cultures are best for different types of soil, whoever made this map doesn’t have farmers in the family.
As usual poor old Malta is left out with no soil at all. Along with Paris, London, and all of Russia.
Scandinavia is buthurt in the comments – as per usual.
Finland 🙁 we can grow things I promise
Why is there data on ex-Yugoslavian states and Ukraine but not Moldova?
16 comments
Wow. See where the highest concentration of good soil is.
I guess this is where the map comes from?
https://soil.copernicus.org/articles/4/267/2018/
Note the soil quality in Ukraine. Even Germans stole it during WWII.
I am also surprised that soil in EU is generally crap except of Romania and few adjacent places.
Source? This map is completely wrong for Sweden at least. The governments agricultural land classification has the best land in Skåne in southern Sweden. By far.
What happened to Wales?
Dayum Romania is going strong on this one!
It was always a mystery to me why best traditional cuisine is in countries with the worst soil (southern Europe) while the worst cuisine in countries with good soil (eastern Europe). Should be kinda opposite.
I’d guess this map is skewed by Ukrainian ‘black earth’; mostly everywhere looks bad relative to that.
I’m still surprised by how poor Spain is, I thought that’s where ancient Rome’s wheat came from? Ok, it’s better than almost all of Italy, but the land that’s now modern France or the Balkans, Hungary, Romania, etc. would surely be better places for agriculture?
Damn romania you get it
And yet every vegetable and fruit that comes out of Greek soil is top notch quality, as tasty as it gets. How is this possible?
Strange, the middle area of west coast of Finland, with those patches of “very poor” soil, is considered the breadbasket of Finland.
Soil quality for growing what? Different types of cultures are best for different types of soil, whoever made this map doesn’t have farmers in the family.
As usual poor old Malta is left out with no soil at all. Along with Paris, London, and all of Russia.
Scandinavia is buthurt in the comments – as per usual.
Finland 🙁 we can grow things I promise
Why is there data on ex-Yugoslavian states and Ukraine but not Moldova?