Anxiety grows for Ukraine’s grain farmers as harvest begins

A farmer collects harvest on a field ten kilometres from the front line where fierce battle is going, a crater left by the Russian rocket in the foreground, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, Monday, July 4, 2022. An estimated 22 million tons of grain are blocked in Ukraine, and pressure is growing as the new harvest begins. The country usually delivers about 30% of its grain to Europe, 30% to North Africa and 40% to Asia. But with the ongoing Russian naval blockade of Ukrainian Black Sea ports, millions of tons of last year’s harvest still can’t reach their destinations. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Anxiety grows for Ukraine’s grain farmers as harvest begins