Newsday - Ukraine’s farmers seek alternative markets - BBC Sounds

European Union ministers have been meeting to find ways to move grain vital to global food security out of Ukraine, after Russia halted a deal that allowed exports via the Black Sea.

Some nations are concerned about the costs of overland transportation and there are also fears that an influx of cheaper Ukrainian wheat will cause prices to tumble in countries bordering the war-ravaged nation.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian farmers are looking for their own alternatives.

Andriy Dykun is head of the Agrarian Council, which represents farmers across Ukraine. He spoke to Newsday from Jordan in Amman where he and a group of farmers are “trying to find markets for our grain by ourselves…It’s not so difficult to find markets, the problem is logistics…In Ukraine there are no aeroplanes anymore so we need to go through Eastern Europe like for example Romania or Warsaw…but at the moment it looks like the export of grain from Ukraine to the EU is blocked by Poland mainly…I think it was a political decision…they were together with Russian propaganda actually”.