In recent days, there have been many reports that the Russian military is stealing hundreds of thousands of tons of grain in the occupied territories of Ukraine. Clarification on the impact of this situation on national food security provided by the First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Taras Vysotsky.
According to him, this situation does not pose a threat on a national scale. But in itself it is pathetic, it can be equated to the genocide of the inhabitants of Zaporizhia, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson regions, because the rest of the agricultural products needed for the current nutrition of Ukrainians are exported.
“Today we have a total of about 25 million tons of grain and oilseeds. If we talk about the temporarily occupied territories, there were about 1 million 300 thousand tons of grain left at the time of the occupation. From the point of view of providing food to all 40 million Ukrainians, we have enough reserves in the controlled territory, “Taras Vysotsky stressed.
He also added that comparing the areas that are currently temporarily unavailable in these areas is about minus 30%. And to provide food for all 40 million Ukrainians, the required sown area is about 35%.
“That is, we have at least 70% of the area available in the controlled area. And only half of them are needed to provide food for all 40 million Ukrainians,” said the First Deputy Minister.