The Biden administration is investing $100 million in a new program to provide vital commodities to Ukrainian farmers to preserve future crops and ease a global food security crisis exacerbated by Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Source: USAID spokesperson
Some Ukrainian fields have turned into battlegrounds, and farmers have been unable to get machinery and other key supplies, including fertilizer, seeds and storage containers that normally come through Black Sea ports.
“AGRI-Ukraine will target Ukraine’s immediate agricultural export challenges, while also simultaneously supporting the wider needs of Ukraine’s agriculture sector and bolstering Ukraine’s continued production of agricultural commodities through 2023. The Initiative will increase Ukrainian farmers’ access to critical agricultural inputs including seeds, fertilizer, equipment, and pesticides, enhance Ukrainian infrastructure capacity and capability to efficiently export agricultural goods, increase farmers’ access to financing and expand the capacity of Ukrainian businesses to dry and temporarily store, and process agricultural commodities.”
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is already working with more than 8,000 Ukrainian farmers to get the necessary result to increase yields.
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