Are the interests of grain traders and foreign countries more important for officials than the food security of their own people?
The enemy has destroyed and continues to destroy the largest bases of fuel and lubricants, sown areas have been reduced due to hostilities and massive mining, hundreds of thousands of agricultural workers have gone to war or left for safe regions.
Therefore, Ukraine's food security is under threat. Force majeure gives Ukraine the opportunity not to fulfill export contracts and leave its people the grain harvest and sunflower oil harvested in 2021.
However, already during the war, the government of Denis Shmygal made a decision – and opened the floodgates for the export of corn and oil abroad. Are the interests of grain traders and foreign countries more important for officials than the food security of their own people?
Thus, on March 27, Ukraine began to supply grain abroad by rail, according to Reuters. The material notes that the authorities decided to take such a step because of the war – Ukrainian seaports were blocked by the Russian occupiers.
“The first consignments of several thousand tons of corn have already been exported across the western land border of Ukraine. Difficulties with logistics persist, supply still prevails over demand, but prices have stopped falling, ”the article adds. In total, up to 600,000 tons of grain per month can be exported by rail from Ukraine to Europe.
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