A look at the problem of the food crisis, from Ukraine.
I'll split the answer into 2 parts:
1. Food crisis after a wild terrorist attack on the country.
2. Food crisis, and the grain market
And so now in detail.
1. Food crisis after a wild terrorist attack on the country.
As you know, Russia's attack on Ukraine took place in 2014 with the annexation of Crimea and the occupation of part of the eastern regions.
If you google and find a dynamic graph of changes in grain production for 2014-2022, there will be a lot of interesting things, but we will return to this a little later, but for now we use data for Ukraine.
The regions of Ukraine that were hit by large-scale terrorist attacks were industrial (primarily) and agricultural. About 25% of Ukrainian agricultural products were grown in these territories. A terrorist country, in the best traditions of Nazism, that which it could not capture, simply destroyed. You can find a huge amount of photo and video materials of how Russian terrorists simply set fire to fields with grain in the summer of 2014.
In the graph mentioned above, you will see a noticeable dip in production. A number of agricultural holdings were also destroyed. All this affected the provision of the domestic market with food products. In 2014-2015, it was noticeable by a decrease in the range of food products, and some price increases. But in 2015-2016, Ukraine was able to adapt, many agricultural holdings restored or even expanded their sown areas. The expansion went through the cultivation of new lands in the southern and western regions of Ukraine. Those. we have gone through this period quite "simply" without a noticeable deterioration in the situation on the country's markets. And without a noticeable DECREASE IN SUPPLY TO THE WORLD MARKET.
2. 2022, Food crisis, and grain market, situation in Ukraine
As you know, without stopping at the occupation of part of Ukraine, Russia launched a global attack on Ukraine in 2022, with the official goal of DESTROYING my country.
From March to June 2022, approximately 25% of my country was occupied in total. The capture did not take place by seizing the authorities, but by a total "scorched earth" approach, or "everything that we cannot steal, we destroy." A huge number of key industrial enterprises were destroyed in the south / east of Ukraine, in the central and northern regions.
In the south and east of Ukraine, elevators and warehouses full of grain stocks were seized. And here "suddenly" a "global food crisis" arose.
It turned out that although Ukraine produces less grain than Russia, it produces more quality grain. You can read the standards, for example, of bread produced in Russia - there is full swing used forage grain, instead of grain of the highest and first grades. Deliveries from Ukraine have stopped, because. The main channel for the supply of grain to the world market was the Black Sea ports, which were either captured, or destroyed or mined.
And here, in the world market, there was a huge shortage of grain. Plus, let me remind you - since 2019, China began to buy grain on a huge scale. Either he knew about COVID, or he knew about the new global terrorist war in Europe, or both, this is a question from another area.
As you know, although Russia occupies a leading position in the area of sown areas, they have significantly lower yields, dependence on Western technologies and techniques (processing and harvesting), and, as I said earlier, most of the grain is not suitable for export.
The year 2022 and their terrorist attack on Ukraine also disrupted their ability to both grow and supply grain to the world market. Russia found a "solution" quickly, and in its usual manner - STEAL GRAIN IN UKRAINE and sell it under the guise of its own. At the same time, the whole world knew, but decided to pretend that "nothing happened", it's not their grain, it's someone else's
Let's go back to the chart I was talking about. If you look at it, then supplies to the world market stabilized just in 2018 (since 2014 there was a drawdown, but not significant). But in 2022, suddenly Russia suddenly increased the number of shipments to the grain market. Guess due to what? Or more precisely, it is more correct to ask - at the expense of WHOSE grain?
Now we are slowly but surely clearing our land and fertile fields from the brown plague of rashism. We will have to work hard and hard to restore fields, farms, and agricultural companies. But we will do it, and we will give the world, as before, a lot of high-quality agricultural products. So the duration of the crisis is directly proportional to Russia's terrorist aggression against Ukraine. And the sooner the terrorist threat is destroyed, the sooner the world will be fed and will live stably!
And another part of the food crisis is the manipulation of the oil market, which directly affects the cost of food production, logistics, etc.
