Posted on 04/26/2022 1:15:43 PM PDT by blam
Grain production in Ukraine is likely to fall by around 20 per cent this year, prompting inflation and global food security warnings from the UK Ministry of Defence.
Britain’s Ministry of Defence has warned that Ukraine’s grain harvest looks set to see around a 20 per cent decrease in yield as a result of the ongoing Russian invasion of the country.
With Ukraine being responsible for a significant share of the world’s supply of wheat and other essential crops, this fall is reportedly likely to have devastating effects on the global supply of food, causing price hikes which will put the poorest people and states at serious risk.
According to a post on the Defence Ministry’s social media, Britain is expecting this one-fifth fall in grain production to occur as a result of reduced sowing areas in the wake of the uptick in Russian hostilities.
Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 25 April 2022
Find out more about the UK government's response: https://t.co/GTz05lanun
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— Ministry of Defence (@DefenceHQ) April 25, 2022
This reduction in supply, the UK government entity suggests, will, in turn, result in serious hikes in grain prices, putting the supply of food at risk at a global level.
“Ukraine is the fourth largest producer and exporter of agricultural goods in the world,” the government organisation’s social media read.
“Reduced grain supply from Ukraine will generate inflationary pressures, elevating the global price of grain,” it continued. “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.”
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I read the other day that the Ukraine was only planning on
achieving 24% of it’s planned crop production in 2022.
Now we are seeing references of only a 20% reduction.
Makes you wonder...
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Weren’t we taught in school all those years ago that Ukraine was the breadbasket of the world? Talk about gluten-free.
Me too.
The big surprise for me is the belief that the Russian are trying to create a food crisis by attacking Ukranian resources.
"Some have suggested that the Russian military is actively preventing grain from being exported from the country, with one senior individual in the grain trade saying Moscow has had its ship block Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea, which in turn has made it almost impossible for produce to get out of the country.
Ireland’s Prime Minister Micheál Martin has also repeated this claim, but has added that Russians are supposedly actively targeting food stockpiles in the country for destruction in the hopes of actively manufacturing a food supply crisis to destabilise the west.
“The largest grain silos in the Ukraine have all been levelled so there is a very clear strategic objective there to create a food crisis on top of the energy crisis that has been created as well as waging an immoral and unjust war on Ukraine itself,” Martin claimed after meeting with the Ukrainian Prime Minister, who stopped off in Ireland while on route to Washington D.C.
“Makes you wonder...”
I know. I never knew Ukraine was the bread basket of the WHOLE WORLD until this started. /s
That's ok, our current admin will send them our food
I’ll be surprised if they export anything at all.
And yet, I still haven’t heard of them leveling those dastardly
BIOLABS.
Energy
Food
Seem to have been the top two things Russia went after.
All according to plan.
‘You will own nothing and be happy.’
It has been a big exporter.
It’s like anything else, if you inhibit a commodity, it
impacts the whole of the market.
Prices go up, supplies drop, shortages occur.
Sounds like a lot of exaggeration, but it isn’t good.
Agree. One of those reports is wrong.
NO..they intend on using corn for fuel. So there wont be any of that to sell.
Winter wheat is already in the ground-it went in last fall.
The rest is speculation of what will be planted and harvested.
I’d like to think the 20% off figure is right.
Thanks...
I wonder what the possibility of bringing in a full harvest
is. Were you thinking of that being the reason why the 20%
off figure for the year might have been accurate.
It could mean we wouldn’t feel the full impacts until next
year, but then Russia has taken the Ukraine’s ports over.
Good luck getting commodities out.
“Grain” usually applies to wheat. Corn is called corn but is considered a grain as is rice.
It depends how much the Russians booby trapped by land mines...etc.
The southeast of the Ukraine is the largest producer of grains I understand. The Ukraine is/was number three in the world in corn production.
We are looking at a vastly reduced production rate right here in the USA since Russia and Belarus are the largest producers of fertilizers in the world. Winter wheat we should be alright since that was put in and is up now. But corn and the rest? Watch out for the largest price hikes in foods you ever saw.
I know this, I wouldnt want to be the one running the combine over there.
Thanks for the food for thought. Good points...
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