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The Russian invasion of Ukraine has upended the farming business, elevating fears of disruption to home and worldwide food supplies. The Guardian has spoken to a farmer in Kherson region about what life is like on the floor, with the Russian military hiding tanks in barns and shares of potatoes anticipated to deplete inside weeks. Andrii Pastushenko, 39, is a dairy farmer who lives 12 miles from Kherson in the south of Ukraine, a metropolis that has been underneath management of the Russian navy....

Planting in the southern, eastern and northern regions was about to start, but the war and weather postponed local farmers' plans. In the west as well as in the center of the country the situation is not much better. Farmers say that the main problem, besides the war with Russia, to start sowing is poor logistics. Suppliers delay seed delivery, there is lack of fuel, fertilizers and chemicals f...

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky told about the first two steps of tax reform in the country. The Ukrainian government has developed and agreed on draft decisions to support the Ukrainian economy to maintain the operation of businesses and employment in places where se...

Andrii Dykun, the head of the Ukrainian AgriCouncil (UAC), spoke in a column on the pages of Economic Truth about the consequences of the sowing campaign failure for the world. «To realize the scale of the catastrophe, I will provide some figures. Ukraine is among TOP-5 exporters in the world. Ukraine is the largest exporter of sunflo...

Ukraine provides grain to more than 400 million people worldwide. Andrii Dykun, the head of the UAC, spoke in a column on the pages of Economic Truth about the consequences for the world of the crop failure. Ukraine is in its third week of war in a devastating wave. However, this wave can hit far beyond. And these are not empty words. Ukrainian land, our chernozems, feed not only us, but also entire na...

Dutchman Kees Huizinga, a large dairy farmer in Ukraine, has become a fighter for the end of the war in Ukraine. 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 mem...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine threatens millions of tiny spring-time sprouts that should emerge from stalks of dormant winter wheat in the coming weeks. If the farmers can't feed those crops soon, far fewer of the so-called tillers will spout, jeopardizing a national wheat harvest on which millions in the developing world depend. The wheat was planted last autumn, which, after a brief growing period, fell dormant for the winter. Before the grain returns to life, however, farmers typically spread fertilizer that encou...

The Committee on Economic Development is calling on its European colleagues to ban international cargo shipments to Russia altogether. In response to the war that Russia has waged against Ukraine most countries of the world, even such traditionally neutral countries as Switzerland, South Korea and Singapore, have...

Global demand for dairy products is rising fast, meaning milk production must grow fast as well. However, the dairy industry has a large carbon footprint so investing in productivity and resource efficiency is fundamental to mitigate the greenhouse gas emissions from increased milk production. Vasyl Hovhera, Lead Expert, Agribusiness Department, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), talks about this in more detail. As the world’s population increases, s...

A few days before the end of last year, dairies were alarmed by reports of falling prices for the raw milk, initiated by a number of operators, mainly from the Dairy Alliance group, apparently mediated by the Ukrainian Dairy Union. The main argument was related to the rapid jump in energy tariffs and, as a result, low or negative pro...