With its ports unsafe, Ukraine scrambles for alternative ways to export grain
By France24
18 June 2022 |
8:09 am
Ukraine, an agricultural powerhouse, was projected to provide around 12 percent of the world's exported wheat this year and more than 16 percent of its corn. But that was before Russia invaded. Since then, the war has disrupted farming and this year's harvest will be much reduced. But the most immediate problem is how to get last year's bumper crop out of the country.
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