From value-added to increased livestock production, farmers in Ukraine have managed to adapt to the conditions of war
This story is a personal perspective from inside Ukraine by Ukrainian journalist Ihor Pavliuk. When we first heard the sounds of rocket explosions on Feb. 24, we were most alarmed. It took my entire credit card limit to fill up my car and buy a supply of groceries. At the time, I thought only a […] Read moreStories by Ihor Pavliuk
Ukrainian farmers may have reached a dead end
An inability to export grain may soon force producers to make hard decisions about whether to produce any more crops
Two years ago, when the coronavirus pandemic swept the world, I didn’t worry about Ukrainian farmers at all. They calmly did their work, plowed the land, sowed and harvested. If in Ukrainian cities there was a difficult situation with COVID-19, the farmers almost did not notice it. A year earlier, Ukraine’s fields were hit by […] Read more
Farming during war: Hostages of globalization
Imagine — even if it looks unrealistic — that one day Canada will be cut off from the rest of the world. And all import deliveries to the country will be possible, for example, only through Alaska, only by trains along one route. It sounds absurd, but Ukraine, in the very heart of Europe, is […] Read more
Ukrainian farmers will seed crop in war zone
Ihor Pavliuk is an agricultural journalist who lives in Ukraine. This is his first-person account of the challenges of sowing a crop during wartime. Ukrainians will farm their land, even in the face of war. In the Kherson area of southern Ukraine, where war rages and the city of Kherson is seen by the Russian […] Read more
Ukrainian farmers determined to seed crop in a war zone
Ukrainians will farm their land, even in the face of war. In the Kherson area of southern Ukraine, where war rages and the city of Kherson is seen by the Russian invaders as strategic, a column set out on March 14. This was a column of tractors, under the flag of Ukraine. In it were […] Read more
Life during wartime
How farmers survive in Ukraine as it resists Russian aggression
It is very difficult to explain what a person feels when they’re awakened at 5 a.m. when a rocket explodes near their house. That’s exactly what I experienced February 24. The first thing I did was fill my car with gasoline. Then we bought a lot of products we thought we might need – medicines […] Read more
