# Ukrainian farmers have been suffering huge losses since Russia occupied parts of the south at the start of the invasion in 2022. Ukraine is among the world’s largest producers of wheat, corn and sunflower seeds and around 90-percent of its exports go through the country’s Black Sea port. Attacks by Russian forces had almost halted agricultural exports. Ukraine’s main farmers’ union, UAC, warns of famine in some import-dependent countries across Africa and the Middle East, which are major buyers of Ukrainian grain, unless supplies arrive on time.
Ukraine’s farmers despair as Russia’s Black Sea blockade traps their harvest