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9.1.6 Agriculture sector news
The first ship with Ukrainian corn left Odesa. On August 1, The RAZONI cargo vessel under the flag of Sierra Leone headed to the port of Tripoli in Lebanon with 26,000 tonnes of Ukrainian corn, announced Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov. The ship will move along a corridor whose safety has been confirmed by the UN and Turkey. Moreover, 16 more ships are already waiting for their turn in the ports of Odessa. These vessels have been blocked since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion. Ukraine expects to receive applications for the arrival of new ships to load agricultural products.” In the coming weeks, we plan to reach the full capacity of transshipment of farm products," Kubrakov noted. Under the auspices of the UN, the monitoring center said that the RAZONI will undergo an inspection in Istanbul on August 2 before going to Tripoli in Lebanon. The center asked all parties to communicate with the military to ensure its safe passage.
Ukraine’s grain harvest is expected to fall 34% this year from its historical peak of 2021 (Interfax-Ukraine 2022). While this fall implies the lowest grain harvest since 2011, it still allows some 35mn tonnes to be sent overseas. And along with the remaining 2021 harvest, Ukraine can export around 50mn tonnes of grain in the next marketing year 2022/23 (starts on 1 July). Logistical bottlenecks imply that even with improved use of railways and Danube delta ports Ukraine may manage to export only 15–25mn tonnes of grain, inducing farmers to leave over half of the summer harvest in the fields.
Russia’s damage to Ukraine’s agriculture reaches $4-6bn. Viktoriia Mykhalchuk, representative of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation, said on July 29 that the damage caused to Ukrainian agriculture as a result of Russia's war varies from $4-6bn, including the damage to “infrastructure such as irrigation equipment, storage, shipping, and processing infrastructure, greenhouses, field
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