Ukraine’s First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, Taras Vysotskyi, expressed “optimism” about the country’s agricultural production on Thursday 1 September, despite the challenges posed by the Russian assault and rising production costs, including high fertiliser prices.
On the export side, the target of shipping between 5 and 6 million tonnes (t) of cereals and oil has not yet been met, he said.
Taras Vysotskyi said in a video conference that the sowing season ended in...