News From Agro-Industrial Complex

More grain ships are ready to leave Ukrainian ports, according to the agreed schedule, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said.

He stated this at a joint briefing with his Estonian counterpart, Urmas Reinsalu, in Kyiv on Wednesday, August 3, according to an Ukrinform correspondent.

Since the beginning of the occupation of a part of the Kherson region, Russian invaders have implemented a strategy of restricting agrarians and have taken control over the sale of any farm produce in the territory under Ukrainian control.

This has left hundreds of farmers faced with the choice of selling tens of thousands of tons of fruits and vegetables to the occupied Crimea, or letting the crops spoil.

The terminal of the Viterra grain trading corporation was damaged as a result of rocket attack on Mykolayiv. Alla Stoyanova, director of the department of agrarian policy of the Odessa Regional State Administration, wrote about this on her Telegram channel on June 27.

Spring planting in Ukraine continues, 98.5% of last year's spring wheat areas were sown, 95% of the area projected for spring rapeseeds has already been sown. Vinnytsia, Volyn, Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Zakarpattia, Kyiv, Poltava, Mykolaiv, Rivne, Ternopil, Khmelnytsky, Cherkasy, and Chernivtsi regions have finished planting spring wheat. In general, sowing of spring grains and pulses was completed by 78% of last year's figures.