In 2025, the State Fisheries Agency’s water management organizations provided farmers with a full range of services for supplying water for irrigation in the Zaporizhzhia, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, and Odesa regions, with the total area of irrigated land exceeding 40,500 hectares, according to its press service on Telegram.
It is specified that to achieve this result, the pumping stations of state irrigation systems supplied 130.8 million cubic meters of water and used about 51.5 million kWh of electricity.
According to the State Fisheries Agency, the largest irrigation areas in 2025 were serviced by the Kiliya Interdistrict Water Management Administration (MUVG), where 78.5 million cubic meters of water were supplied to nearly 10,000 hectares of agricultural land, The Dniester MWH supplied 24.3 million cubic meters of water to irrigate 8,600 hectares of fields, and the Izmail WMD irrigated 8,300 hectares of fields, the agency specifies.
Various irrigation methods were used for maximum efficiency: sprinklers, drip irrigation, and flooding. Thanks to this, in addition to traditional cereals and legumes, vegetables, and fruits, farmers grew the “white gold” of the south—cotton, which began to be cultivated in Ukraine last year, the agency said.
Employees of the State Fisheries Agency’s water management departments have already begun preparing water management and reclamation facilities for the winter period and the 2026 irrigation season.
