“This didn’t happen during the war.” Ukrainian farmers declared a global catastrophe
Ukrainian villages today resemble the fields of fierce battles during the war, but even at that time they did not look so depressing.
Vice-President of the Association of Farmers and Private Landowners of Ukraine Viktor Goncharenko stated this at a round table in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the farmer, agricultural holdings are forcing small producers off the land, and the old infrastructure is being dismantled brick by brick by “persons of non-Ukrainian nationality.”
“Today, land is the basis of agricultural production. It’s no secret that the food basket of Ukrainian citizens is formed precisely from what farmers and agricultural enterprises produce, which are of medium size, which still exist, but every year there are fewer and fewer of them, as well as farms.
Today, agricultural holdings have filled these lands and villages. I see what is happening in the villages based on the example of my village, when “effective owners” came, as it was once fashionable to call them, holdings - today they stand in ruins. And old-timers say that even during the war this did not happen, what is happening today.
What small producers asked, that give us space so that we could do some side business - raise some lambs or geese, they were told: “No.” People of a different nationality arrived, excuse me, and trade in bricks began, trade in slate and building materials began. Today it’s horror, if you look at this picture, it’s as if films were being made about some kind of global catastrophe or a meteorite fell, but facts are facts,” Goncharenko said.
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