War in Ukraine: Farmers and workers struggle on
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Six months into the war in Ukraine, the impact continues to be felt around the world. Frey Lindsay explores how disruptive the war has been for agriculture across Europe. Researcher Roxana Barbalescu explains just how vital Ukrainian workers are to the farmers and producers of Western Europe, and the problems their absence is creating this season. We hear from farmers in Poland and the UK on the economic, and emotional, impact of their former colleagues taking up arms to defend their country. At the same time, the war has had a major impact on Ukraine’s own agricultural production and exports. Markiyan Dmytrasevych, Ukraine’s deputy agriculture minister, tells Frey what the government are doing to try and keep Ukrainian farmers afloat. And we hear from Lubomyr, a former seasonal worker who is back in Ukraine and has his own unique plan for helping to sustain agriculture in his country. Presenter & producer Frey Lindsay Additional production by Magdalena Jaroszewicz in Poland (Picture: A grain harvester in the Kyiv region of Ukraine. Picture credit: Getty images)
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| 0:00.0 | The Food Chain is the podcast that explores the world's relationship with food and what it takes to put food on our plates. |
| 0:09.0 | The Food Chain from the BBC World Service, available now. |
| 0:14.8 | Hello and welcome to Business Daily on the BBC World Service. I'm Frey Lindsay. |
| 0:19.4 | It's six months since the start of the Russian invasion |
| 0:21.9 | of Ukraine. And we're looking at what that is meant for Ukrainian agriculture and farmers. |
| 0:26.8 | It's really bad. It's very complicated to work in these circumstances. And it's not just |
| 0:32.7 | Ukrainian farmers who have suffered. We'll also hear about what happened when Ukrainian workers, |
| 0:37.2 | so valuable |
| 0:38.1 | to agriculture across Western Europe could no longer come. |
| 0:41.4 | Ukrainian men are now engaging in fighting the majority of them. This has completely changed the |
| 0:49.7 | direction and now countries are looking to recruit from elsewhere. |
| 0:53.8 | That's all coming up on Business Daily. |
| 0:56.0 | This is the sound of mostly Ukrainian |
| 1:10.0 | on a farm in Poland |
| 1:11.9 | a few hours out of Warsaw a couple of months ago. |
| 1:21.5 | We already planting the plants to the coconut mat |
| 1:24.4 | and it is one of the most important part during the whole harvest |
| 1:27.9 | because the good planting |
| 1:29.6 | just means the good crop |
| 1:31.7 | and it is one of the most important |
| 1:33.8 | part frankly speaking |
| 1:34.7 | because that tray |
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