Another farmer in the area tells me that a third of his nearly 10,000 acres have been used for trenches, mining and the like. Tkachenko says that about 3 to 5 percent of the fields in his region were fortified early in the war against a possible Russian sea invasion.
Even in the relatively safe southwest, the Ukrainian military has commandeered - thereby disabling - a lot of farmland. More than a quarter of Ukraine’s grain country lies east of the Dnieper River, and has been controlled or threatened by Russia since the February 2022 invasion. The price of fertilizer shot up after the February 2022 invasion ( and Russia’s temporary decision not to export any of its own) and has since come down, but not enough, Tkachenko says, for farmers to afford enough for every field.Īnd there are many fewer fields. Ukraine has some capacity to synthesize fertilizer for itself, but two of its major fertilizer plants are now controlled by Russia. Before the war, Russia was a large exporter of fertilizer and also of ammonium, which is essential to the fertilizers used by farmers like those Tkachenko represents.
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