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European Union foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell has made similar claims, stating in early April: “They are bombing Ukrainian cities and provoking hunger in the world… They are provoking hunger in the world by blocking the exports of wheat and by destroying the storage of wheat in Ukraine.”
According to a UK Ministry of Defence report, grain production is expected to be down a fifth in Ukraine this year, but even if farmers are able to sow and reap their crop in war conditions, once stored in silos they are liable to be bombed by Russia. Exporting the crop is then challenged by Russia blockading Ukraine’s Black Sea ports: grain is a bulk cargo and potentially hundreds of long-distance truck journeys could be required to replace a single ship.
Underlining the importance of keeping Ukraine’s food flowing, the report stated: “Ukraine is the fourth largest producer and exporter of agricultural goods in the world… Reduced grain supply from Ukraine will generate inflationary pressures, elevating the global price of grain.
“High grain prices could have significant implications for global food markets and threaten global food security, particularly in some of the least economically developed countries.”
The United Nations has claimed a global shortage of food that could be triggered by the collapse of agriculture or exports from Ukraine — long known as the ‘breadbasket of Europe’ for its prodigious agricultural output — would see starvation in third-world countries trigger a “hell on earth” migrant crisis.
VIDEO Occupiers in Zaporizhzhia region forcibly take grain from farmers-RMA
VIDEO: RUSSIAN TRUCK CONVOY
Loads of grain being carried away from Melitopol
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“A column of grain trucks marked with the letter Z was spotted in Melitopol. The column was moving in a southerly direction accompanied by the RUSSIAN military.”
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Rashists in Melitopol district buy grain from farmers at an undervalued price, and from those who refuse, they take it away by force.
This is stated by Zaporizhzhya Regional Military Administration, reports Censor.NЕТ.
“Farmers of Melitopol district report that the occupiers have begun to buy up grain at HALF the price. Those who REFUSE to cooperate in this way have their GRAIN TAKEN away by force at GUNPOINT. However, it is in Melitopol where the locals continue to resist the occupiers.”
INFO:
The UKRAINE harvest alone will add 0.8% to the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), according to the National Bank’s report released in October 2021.
SUMMATION: RUSSIA STEALS UKRAINE GRAIN because falling crop harvests were experienced in 2021 by most of the largest exporting countries: Canada, Brazil and the United States, where, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, wheat harvest were at their lowest levels in the past 19 years.
A SUPPLY GAP, coupled with RISING DEMAND and RECORD PURCHASES by China for the state food reserve, pushed the average price of wheat on world markets up 31% y/y, according to an estimate by FAO (the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations).
“[RUSSIA] NOT a very good harvest” warned Kirill Tremasov, director of the monetary policy department of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, which will feed high inflation in 2022, he added. At the end of last year, according to RosStat, FOOD INFLATION hit a six-year high of 10.6% in 2021.
UKRAINE HAS BUMPER HARVEST 2021
The country exported roughly $18bn worth of agricultural products according to the State Statistic Service of Ukraine.
In 2021, China was the largest importer of Ukrainian agricultural goods, India imported $1.35bn worth of agricultural goods, followed by th Netherlands with $1.2bn.
https://www.intellinews.com/russia-reports-poor-harvest-ukraine-bumper-crop-in-2021-231397/
SEE DISCUSSION: April 27, 2022 Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Press Release No. 379 (13593)
RUSSIA officially announced plans to “expropriate crop surpluses” from the Russian-occupied Kherson region and other occupied regions of Ukraine.
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