For the past 20 years the co-owner and head of the successful innovative dairy farm Kischenzi LLC has run a large 15,000 hectare farm in the centre of Ukraine. The farm, a member of the Association of Milk Producers, is in the top 10 in Ukraine by size and milk production.

Today he is the voice and soul of all Ukrainian agrarians, all Ukrainians: he seeks and delivers the truth about the bloody war unleashed by Russia; he explains to EU officials the reality and inevitability of the global food and humanitarian crisis if Russia does not stop immediately, if Ukrainian agrarians do not go to the fields, and if Ukraine is not helped to protect the sky.

«Leaving the farm in Ukraine was not my own wish, but the pronounced wish of the Ukrainian Agrarian Council, a farmers organization with over 1,100 members representing 3,5 million hectares of agricultural land. They basically ordered me to go to Europe to tell the world about the disaster that is heading towards us if large parts of the 36 million hectares of arable land in Ukraine will not be planted in the coming weeks. If the war is not stopped before the end of March, no export may come from Ukraine after summer this year. This will affect mostly the already instable countries of Northern Africa and the Middle East. If there is no harvest this summer in Ukraine, there will be a huge deficit in wheat and other grains on the world market. This war is a silent killer with huge incalculable global consequences. If the people in Northern Africa and the middle east will not be able to buy bread anymore, they won’t wait and sit back until they have died. Yes, there are many reasons to stop this war as soon as possible, but if we miss the window of opportunity for planting in Ukraine the humanitarian crisis will not be limited to Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa and Mariupol. The people in Ukraine are not only fighting for their freedom, but also for world food security and with that for the stability of the entire world,» says Kees.

«This is the message I have tried to get across over the past week. This is what I kept on repeating to media from all over the world, to Bloomberg, Reuters, Financial Times, BBC radio, Agrarheute, Telegraaf and many others,» adds he.

Kees Huizinga is collecting humanitarian aid for hospitals, Ukrainian people and the AFU — two truckloads of humanitarian aid have already arrived in Ukraine!