Ukraine’s government has banned exports of wheat, oats and other staple foods crucial to global supplies as part of authorities’ efforts to ensure they can feed their people during the Russian invasion.
New rules for agricultural exports, introduced this week, also ban the export of millet, buckwheat, sugar, live cattle, meat and other “by-products” of livestock, a government announcement said.
The ban is necessary “to prevent a humanitarian crisis in Ukraine”stabilize the market and “satisfy the needs of the population in critical food products”explained Roman LeshchenkoMinister of Agrarian and Food Policy, in a statement published on the government’s website and its page of Facebook.
It is the latest indication that the Russian invasion of Ukraine threatens global food supplies and the livelihoods of people in Europe, Africa and Asiawhich depend on many crops in the region of the Black Seaknown as the “barn of the world”.
Together, Russia and Ukraine supply a third of the world’s exports of wheat and barley, whose prices have soared since the invasion.
The exported products are used in the production of bread, pasta and animal feed, so any shortage could create food insecurity in places like Egypt and LebanonThe suspension of exports will almost certainly reduce global supplies at a time when prices are at their highest levels since 2011.
Source: Gestion
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