On the air of the telethon on Ukrainian channels, the newly appointed Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Mykola Solsky noted that conducting a sowing campaign in Ukraine and establishing logistics for grain exports from our country are his key tasks as a minister.
According to him, in order to avoid a global food crisis, we need to stop the war in our country. In the meantime, it is necessary to establish opportunities to sell agricultural products through Western countries.
He said that Ukraine now has about $ 7.5 billion in grain reserves for export. At the same time, exports through ports are currently impossible.
Ports are limited. We used to export 4-5 million tons of agricultural products (both grain and processed) through the ports a month. Now it is only a few hundred thousand tons across the western borders. It is very important to establish this. because it is money for farmers,” Solsky explained.
He confirmed that there had been cases of theft of grain ships by the enemy, such as in Berdyansk, which was temporarily captured by Russian troops. However, such a situation, according to the Minister, is not critical.