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.
Where do cheap Kherson vegetables come from in Crimea?
Russian looters prevent price-gouging at the expense of vegetables stolen from Ukraine. This is described in the investigation of the project "Crimea.Realities".
Russia's war against Ukraine has shown the need to change approaches to the guarantors of food security, one of which is Ukraine. Taras Vysotskyi, First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, spoke about what these guarantees should be on the air of the UA national marathon.
As of 7 April 2022, the projected sown areas of the main spring crops for the 2022 harvest in the territory controlled by Ukraine are 13,648 thousand hectares, which is 3,268.3 thousand hectares less than last year (16,916.3 thousand hectares).
The occupiers hinder the supply and recovery of electricity, water and heat, food delivery.
The Russian military is creating a humanitarian catastrophe in Mariupol.
The mayor of the city Vadim Boychenko declared it.
HAMBURG/KYIV, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Chinese buyers made substantial purchases of Ukrainian-origin animal feed corn late last week, European traders said on Monday.
The volumes bought were unclear, with estimates ranging between 300,000 to 700,000 tonnes. One Ukrainian trader said eight to 10 shipments were bought, or at least 500,000 tonnes.
The rising global warming is a danger to all ecosystems, especially humans. Currently, human civilization as a whole depends on three main grain sources to complete half of their total calorie consumption.
These three grains are Paddy, Wheat and maize. Now according to Ellen Gray from Nasa’s Earth science team, two of these three crops are in danger now due to the rising global warming.
According to recent simulations conducted by NASA’s scientists on the effect of climate change on the production of these three main crops in the coming years, the production of maize (corn) and wheat might be affected adversely by 2030 under a high greenhouse gas emissions scenario.
Rome - The world food price barometer surged to a new peak reaching its highest level since July 2011, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported today.
The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of a basket of food commodities, averaged 133.2 points in October, up 3 percent from September, rising for a third consecutive month.
The FAO Cereal Price Index in October increased by 3.2 percent from the previous month, with world wheat prices rising by 5 percent amid tightening global availabilities due to reduced harvests in major exporters, including Canada, the Russian Federation and the United States of America. International prices of all other major cereals also increased month-on-month.
The European Parliament’s Plenary vote on the EU Methane Strategy took place. The strategy, which is of the upmost importance for the agricultural sector, calls for the reduction of methane emissions as part of the measures to combat climate change.