As global wheat prices soar, Russia may be weaponizing food to stoke a worldwide hunger crisis. 'We're not talking about profit anymore,' the head of a Ukrainian agriculture firm said. “We’re talking about survival.'
A Ukrainian explosive disposal unit had to dig out a missile from a farm field NBC News visited this month near Kyiv before farmers there could lay seed. Trenches and foxholes were still dug into parts of the land.
Vyacheslav, a tractor driver for AgroRegion, walks near his tractor in a field he is planting with corn on April 25, 2022 near Boryspil, Ukraine.Ukrainian farmers were dependent on exporting quickly and moved the vast majority of their stores through the Black Sea, he said. Those ports are currently under Russian control or blockaded by its navy.
Trains have been a vital lifeline for Ukraine to move its supplies and people throughout the country during the war, and the movement of food is no different.Corn coated with fugicide in a field being planted by AgroRegion last month near Boryspil, Ukraine.“It’s not just just farmers, but pretty much everybody, every commodity, including coal and mining, uses the railways,” said Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, the CEO of Ukrainian Railways’ passenger train business.
“We load on wagons much more than we can export,” he said, “and now we have huge queues — 10 days, sometimes 20 days — at every crossing border point.”There are growing calls from world leaders for a solution, but that would require major changes to transportation infrastructure in Ukraine and border protocols. That can’t be resolved overnight, leading to more daring suggestions.
Egypt is trying to increase its domestic wheat production as the war in Ukraine has strained international supplies of the grain.But such grand ideas are fraught with geopolitical danger, so the world is currently reliant on more modest solutions.
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