Since terminating a deal that allowed Ukrainian grain exports in the Black Sea, Russia has stepped up attacks on ports, storage facilities and other agricultural infrastructure.
PAVLIVKA, Ukraine — When four Russian cruise missiles ripped apart a grain storage facility in this southern village last week, shock waves shattered the windows of adjacent homes, sending broken glass everywhere.
Odessa’s grain industry suffered tens of millions of dollars in damage as a result of the near-nightly Russian airstrikes. The attacks destroyed at least 60,000 tons of grain, enough to feed more than 270,000 people for a year, according to the U.N. World Food Program. “Only upon receipt of concrete results, and not promises and assurances, will Russia be ready to consider restoring the deal,” Russia’s Foreign Ministry said.
Power has made it her goal to salvage Ukraine’s agricultural sector, announcing an additional $250 million to increase the rate of loading and unloading at Danube ports, expand access to financing for farmers who lost business in the war and cannot afford to plant new crops, and streamline Western border checkpoints to increase trade.The use of the Danube River as an alternative trade route has shown the most promise thus far.
Chumak, who grows wheat, barley and other crops, said there were several months last year when the Black Sea deal moved exports quickly, but eventually Russia began restricting the movement of ships unpredictably, raising transport costs for farmers.While he has been able to export some products via the Danube, it is too expensive to be profitable, he said.
Russia is not the only problem for Ukrainian farmers. Poland’s government, at the behest of its influential farm lobby, is pushing the European Union to extend import restrictions on Ukrainian agricultural products — a move some Ukrainian farmers view as a betrayal from an otherwise staunch ally.
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