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Temperate, not necessarily arable. Arable implies soil conditions, etc which most of these areas probably don't have.

I meant arable: the soil (not) being frozen is one of the factors affecting arability, right? Russia has this to gain (with precipitation being possibly at risk) https://phys.org/news/2018-05-climate-arable.html

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