Ukrainian agricultural producers lost $34 billion
Ukrainian farmers are suffering serious losses and are forced to switch to an emergency mode of operation, which involves reducing the production of agricultural products and livestock in order to stay in the realities of Ukraine.
This was discussed by participants in a briefing on food security in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“There is such a thing as indirect losses. This could be lost benefits, environmental losses, or anything else. And they reach 34 billion dollars.
Data from FAO [the UN organization whose main task is to fight hunger] - ed.) indicate that today 25% of households have stopped growing agricultural products or reduced the number of livestock,” stated Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Markiyan Dmitrasevich.
In turn, Anna Burka, leading FAO research analyst in Ukraine, explained that these measures relate to “emergency strategies,” while there are also “stress” and “crisis” ones.
“Stress strategies include when a person begins to sell property - this is furniture, televisions, radios, everything related to property, or, as an example, a person begins to borrow money to provide basic needs, such as food, medical services, access to housing .
Regarding crisis strategies, these are strategies when a person begins to sell his production assets, they reduce spending on the purchase of mineral fertilizers, on veterinary services, on feed.
The most difficult strategy for people is the emergency strategy, when a person sells land, a house to provide basic needs, or sells the last reproductive animals.
If we look at this graph, we will see that at the national level, about 40% of households have already begun to use crisis strategies,” Anna Burka, lead research analyst for FAO in Ukraine.
At the same time, according to the schedule, near the front line the degree of application of the listed measures is higher by only literally a few percent relative to the central and western regions. The Zaporozhye region is in the lead, and the lowest indicators are in the Kherson region.
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