Due to the blockade of Crimea, Kherson farmers began to feed their crops to livestock
Kherson farmers suffered significant losses due to the loss of Crimea. This is stated in an article in the newspaper “Young Ukraine”.
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Thus, the blockade of the peninsula by Ukraine led to the fact that farmers were forced to feed their remaining harvest to livestock.
“Over the past two years, farmers in the Kherson region have suffered significant losses due to the blockade of sales of tomatoes and other agricultural products in the direction of the occupied Crimean peninsula. The main problem in the production of agricultural products, which seriously spoiled the plans of domestic farmers, was the complete lack of specialized storage facilities for preserving a good harvest. Last fall, farmers openly declared a tomato crisis, because in the markets of southern Ukraine the price per kilogram of tomatoes did not exceed two hryvnia. At the same time, the average cost of production was more than one and a half hryvnia per kilogram.
And the peasants were happy to sell their harvest to wholesale buyers, even for one hryvnia, twenty kopecks per kilogram, in order to get rid of excess production. Due to the impossibility of preserving the tomatoes, eggplants and zucchini collected in the fields, they had to be sent to feed livestock,” the newspaper writes.
As PolitNavigator reported, Kyiv is raising the alarm over the lack of Ukrainian goods in Crimea and Donbas.
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Due to the blockade of Crimea, Kherson farmers have begun feeding their harvest to livestock.