![]() Department of Agriculture, accounting for more than 40 per cent of overall exports. In 2021, the year before Russia’s full-scale invasion, they totalled almost US$28-billion, according to the U.S. Agricultural products – sunflower oil, wheat, barley, corn, rapeseed – are its top exports. It is Europe’s biggest country (if you exclude Russia, whose land mass is largely in Asia) and is mostly flat. “Without access to the seas, it is impossible to support our agriculture products,” said Taras Vysotskyi, Ukraine’s first deputy minister of agrarian policy and food.ĭrive anywhere in Ukraine and you will realize the country is one enormous farm. Nibulon, one of the largest Ukrainian agribusinesses and the only one with its own fleet and shipyard, almost went bankrupt. ![]() Cargo volumes from Ukraine’s deep-water ports are running at about two-thirds of their preinvasion levels – a remarkable, even heroic, achievement after the near destruction of some of the country’s biggest river and sea ports, the violent death of the boss of Ukraine’s top agribusiness company, the collapse of a United Nations-brokered initiative to secure a safe shipping corridor, and daring attacks on the Russian navy that sent its warships fleeing to the eastern side of the Black Sea.Īt its lowest point, in 2022, a blockade of the sea lanes and the damage to the ports threatened to sink the country’s export-focused agricultural industry.
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