{"id":1462181,"date":"2022-05-03T13:45:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T17:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1462181"},"modified":"2022-05-03T13:45:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T17:45:23","slug":"millions-of-tons-of-grain-stuck-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/millions-of-tons-of-grain-stuck-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions of Tons of Grain Stuck in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmillions-of-tons-of-grain-stuck-in-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1462181&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><\/p>\n<h2>&#8216;None of the grain can be used right now&#8217;<\/h2>\n<div id=\"authorDate\">\n<p>\u00a0on&#038;nbsp3rd May 2022 @ 6.00pm <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<figure title=\"Grain cannot be exported from Ukraine because the typical method of moving the huge bulk of the product\">\n<div class=\"articleImage\">\n<p><span class=\"creditNew\">\u00a9\u00a0press<\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>Grain cannot be exported from Ukraine because the typical method of moving the huge bulk of the product<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>A United Nations director has warned there are millions of tons of grain stuck in Ukraine as Russia&#8217;s war disrupts food production.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regional director of the United Nations\u2019 World Food Programme, Germany-based Martin Frick has said there are as many as four and a half million tons of grain just sitting at Ukrainian ports waiting to be exported.<\/p>\n<p>In comments reported by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/02\/millions-tonnes-grain-stuck-ukraine-un-wfp-official-germany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> The Guardian,<\/a> UN man Frick said:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNone of the grain can be used right now. It is just sitting there\u2026 The world urgently needs these items of food from Ukraine.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/05\/03\/food-crisis-millions-of-tons-of-grain-stuck-in-ukraine-as-russias-war-blocks-exports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Breitbart <\/a>reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Though a humanitarian corridor for Ukrainian refugees coming out of regions impacted by war and for humanitarian aid to get in are frequently discussed, Frick says there should also be a humanitarian corridor put in place for Ukraine\u2019s enormous agricultural output to get to the rest of the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He said, in comments reported by the Augsburger Allgemeine:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe demand\u2026 the grain trade routes remain open despite the Ukraine war,&#8221; <\/em>Frick added.<\/p>\n<figure title=\"The fact that food cannot get out of Ukraine, Frick said, is exacerbating a &#039;global hunger crisis&#039;\">\n<div class=\"articleImage\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/The-fact-that-food-cannot.jpg\" alt=\"the fact that food cannot get out of ukraine  frick said  is exacerbating a  global hunger crisis\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"creditNew\">\u00a9\u00a0press<\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>The fact that food cannot get out of Ukraine, Frick said, is exacerbating a &#8216;global hunger crisis&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Frick said that in all, some 20 million tons of grain has been blocked from leaving Ukraine so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>For comparison, the Guardian report claims that a combined 55 million tons of corn and wheat were harvested in Ukraine in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Grain cannot be exported from Ukraine because the typical method of moving the huge bulk of the product, by bulk carrier ship from Ukraine\u2019s Black Sea ports, has been rendered impossible by the intensification of hostilities by Russia this year.<\/p>\n<p>Replacing ships with overland trucking is deeply impractical exactly because of that bulk, as a single ship can replace tens of hundreds of trucks.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine is a major global producer of several food and agricultural products and the combination of disruption of its exports, as well as boycotts of Russia\u2019s own production, have led to major warnings of an impending global food crisis as available stocks dwindle in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>One of Russia\u2019s earliest moves in its intensification of hostilities against Ukraine this year, ongoing since 2014 &#8211; was moving to cut the country off from its sea lanes of communication.<\/p>\n<p>Several merchant ships have been sunk or damaged in the Black Sea this year, including bulk carriers of the kind used to export wheat and grains to the world, with claims of bombs, missiles, and even sea mines being used to take civilian merchant craft down.<\/p>\n<figure title=\"This food is extremely important for supplying the population, especially in Africa or the Middle East\">\n<div class=\"articleImage\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/This-food-is-extremely.jpg\" alt=\"this food is extremely important for supplying the population  especially in africa or the middle east\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"creditNew\">\u00a9\u00a0press<\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>This food is extremely important for supplying the population, especially in Africa or the Middle East<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The fact that food cannot get out of Ukraine, Frick said, is exacerbating a \u201cglobal hunger crisis\u201d already intensified by years of coronavirus lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p><em> \u201cThis food is extremely important for supplying the population, especially in Africa or the Middle East,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p>Frick also cited his boss in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WFPChief\/status\/1521156152121253888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media post<\/a>, in which the World Food Programme global chief said of the food trapped in Ukraine:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe have to open up these ports. We have to open them up and protect them so that food can move in and out of this country for the rest of the world. It\u2019s a humanitarian need, the rest of the world demands it, we have to have those ports open. We have to!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Frick implored that \u201cHunger doesn\u2019t have to be a weapon,\u201d Newsweek reports.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, it is becoming increasingly clear that Russia does appear to be weaponising food in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Besides actively blocking the export of food from Ukraine, there have also been widespread claims of Russia deliberately bombing grain silos \u2014 the huge facilities which can store whole harvests.<\/p>\n<p>Were that not enough, there are also claims that Russia is carrying off Ukrainian grains as war booty in great convoys going north.<\/p>\n<p>Radio Free Europe cited Ukrainian government deputy agriculture minister Taras Vysotskiy\u2019s words when he said <em>\u201cthere are confirmed facts that several hundred thousand tons of grain in total were taken out of the Zaporizhzhya, Kherson, Donetsk, and Luhansk regions.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Vysotskiy\u2019s boss, minister Mykola Solskiy made similar remarks, saying of the theft of grain: <em>\u201cI personally hear this from many silo owners in the occupied territory.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is outright robbery. And this is happening everywhere in occupied territory\u2026 There will soon be a wheat harvest in the south.<\/p>\n<p>But farmers in this situation may well say<em>: \u2018Here are the keys to the tractor \u2014 go collect it yourself, if you want\u2019.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h4 id=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/neonnettle.com\/news\/18948-global-institutions-warn-of-worldwide-food-shortages-in-six-months\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[RELATED] Global Institutions Warn of Worldwide \u2018Food Shortages\u2019 in Six Months<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;None of the grain can be used right now&#8217; \u00a0on&#038;nbsp3rd May 2022 @ 6.00pm   \u00a9\u00a0press Grain cannot be exported from Ukraine because the typical<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":1897344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1462181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/neonnettle.com\/news\/18964-millions-of-tons-of-grain-stuck-in-ukraine-amid-fears-of-global-food-crisis","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1462181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}