Ukraine Has New Way to Get Grain to World Despite Russia’s Threat in Black Sea

KYIV, Ukraine —  Grain thunders into rail cars and trucks zip around a storage facility in central Ukraine, a place that growing numbers of companies turned to as they struggled to export their food to people facing hunger around the world. Now, more of the grain is getting unloaded from overcrammed silos and heading to […]

Farmers in Ukraine to Benefit from World Bank Support [EN/UK] – Ukraine

Attachments WASHINGTON, October 30, 2023—A new World Bank project will help more than 90,000 farmers to access affordable loans and receive grants for agricultural production, a sector that was negatively impacted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with further ramifications for food and nutrition security globally. The Ukraine Agriculture Recovery Inclusive Support Emergency (ARISE) Project will […]

Ukraine to sue Poland, Hungary and Slovakia over food import bans

Ukraine plans to sue Poland, Hungary and Slovakia over bans on Ukrainian agricultural products, Agriculture Minister Mykola Solsky said on Monday. “I think (it will be) in the near future,” he told Reuters. Politico had earlier on Monday quoted Ukrainian Trade Representative Taras Kachka as saying in an interview that Kyiv planned to sue the […]

Poland, Hungary, Slovakia to introduce own bans on Ukraine grains

Reuters, Brussels/Warsaw Sat Sep 16, 2023 02:36 PM Last update on: Sat Sep 16, 2023 02:54 PM A view of the cereal terminal with grain silo in the Black Sea port of Constanta, Romania, May 11, 2022. Photo: Reuters “> A view of the cereal terminal with grain silo in the Black Sea port of […]

India hopes for progress on global agenda as G20 leaders meet despite rifts over the war in Ukraine

Leaders of many of the world’s biggest economies prepared to huddle in the Indian capital for the Group of Twenty summit Saturday, though growing global rifts and the absence of key players meant that reaching consensus on the thorniest issues could prove elusive. At least a fifth of G20 heads were not in New Delhi. […]

PM calls for an amicable end to Ukraine war

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday asked the international community to take steps for an amicable end to the Ukraine war as the prolonging coupled with sanction and counter-sanction is destabilizing the world. “I emphasize again on the urgent need for an amicable end to the Ukraine war. The prolonging war and the imposed sanctions […]

Last ship under grain deal leaves Ukraine port

The last ship to travel under a UN-brokered deal that allows the safe Black Sea export of Ukrainian grain left the port of Odesa early on Sunday ahead of a deadline to extend the agreement, according to a Reuters witness and MarineTraffic.com. Russia has not agreed to register any new ships since June 27 and […]

Rice crops are being threatened by El Nino after grain supplies were disrupted by the war in Ukraine

NEW DELHI — Warmer, drier weather because of an earlier than usual El Nino is expected to hamper rice production across Asia, hitting global food security in a world still reeling from the impacts of the war in Ukraine. An El Nino is a natural, temporary and occasional warming of part of the Pacific that […]

Ukraine says Russian missile attacks kill three in Odesa, three in Donetsk

Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor of the Donetsk region, said two people had been killed in the city of Kramatorsk and one in the industrial city of Kostiantynivka. “The missiles … hit private houses in the cities and caused significant damage: in Kramatorsk, at least 5 private houses were destroyed and about two dozen damaged, in Kostiantynivka, two were destroyed and […]

EU restrictions on Ukraine grain imports extend to Sept 15

The European Union will extend to September 15 restrictions on imports of Ukrainian agricultural products imposed by five member states seeking to protect their farmers, the commission said on Monday. Major grain producer Ukraine was forced to export more of its produce by land through EU neighbours after Russia blockaded its Black Sea ports following […]