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Australia Set for 3rd Year of Bumper Wheat Harvests, Easing World Supply Woes
Date: June 2, 2022
By Naveen Thukral SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Australia is poised for a third year of near-record wheat production in 2022 as good weather boosts planting across its grain belt, easing concerns over tight global inventories. World wheat supplies have tightened after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year cut off shipments from one of the...
Ukraine’s Embattled Farmers Running on Empty as World Faces Food Crisis
Date: May 25, 2022
By Gus Trompiz and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) – After making it through the spring planting season, sometimes with the help of bulletproof vests and helmets, Ukraine’s farmers are facing another challenge – finding enough diesel for the harvest to come. The war with Russia cut fuel supplies just as farmers stepped up work for...
Ukraine Looks for Ways to Get Its Grain Out
Date: May 25, 2022
By Pavel Polityuk and Silvia Aloisi KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine is seeking ways to get grain and vegetable oils out of the country by breaking a months-long blockade of the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea by the Russian navy and moving more by land. The war, together with Western sanctions against Russia, have sent...
Kremlin Says West Triggered Global Food Crisis With Sanctions
Date: May 23, 2022
LONDON (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Monday that the West had triggered a global food crisis by imposing the severest sanctions in modern history on Russia over the war in Ukraine. The war – and the West’s attempt to isolate Russia as punishment – have sent the price of grain, cooking oil, fertiliser and...
Hungary’s Otp to Step up Lending to Farmers in War-Torn Ukraine
Date: May 20, 2022
By Gergely Szakacs BUDAPEST (Reuters) – OTP Bank will step up lending to Ukraine’s farmers this year under a Kyiv-backed programme to help them overcome financing problems due to the Russian invasion, an executive at the Hungarian bank told Reuters. Central Europe’s largest independent lender, which is also present in Russia, has started scaling back...
Spiralling Costs Could Take Greek Graviera Cheese Off the Menu
Date: May 19, 2022
By Karolina Tagaris and Vassilis Triandafyllou NAXOS, Greece (Reuters) – In a small factory on the Greek island of Naxos, workers are busy churning out its famous graviera cheese. At least, they are for now. A crisis unfolding on the island’s farms is sparking fears that the locally-produced pale yellow wheels may soon start to...