Polish farmers irate over Ukrainian grain

That Ukrainian/Russian Grain deal? much of the grain doesn't even go to needy countries nor countries like Africa.

The Ukrainian grain goes directly to Europe which had being Polish farmers had being iterating over the deal.

This had being reported last year but mostly ignored.


Polish farmers irate over Ukrainian grain

"Of the grain that is now getting out of Ukraine, about 80% is coming through Poland — and much is leaking into the local markets, bringing down prices," Jan Bieniasz, managing director of the SAN farmers cooperative in the village of Laka, told DW.

This grain was intended for export to the Middle East and Africa. Why is the grain heading towards the Polish borders and not the black seas as it was supposed to be?


Here is the usual typical propaganda.

Bieniasz said Russia, and the USSR before it, has always used food as a political tool

So its not Europe that is using Food as a political tool nor is it Europe that is stealing the grain which is supposed meant as a export to the Middle East and Africa.

Russia gets to be blamed even as far by claiming that Russia is using Food as a political tool?


Considering much of the food/grain had being leaking through the Polish borders and not going through the black sea to Turkey. Is interestingly enough how they could still blame Russia.

Too much Ukrainian grain?

According to the Polish People's Party (PSL) — which has a strong voter base in rural Poland and among farmers — about one-third of Ukrainian grain leaks into Poland.

Why is this food in Poland when it was supposed to be exported out to the Middle East and other needy countries?

Grain from Ukraine has been flowing into Poland "on an unprecedented scale," according to the farmers union AGROunia.

If Grain from Ukraine had being flowing into Poland and likely into other Euporean countries how is this Russia using Food as a political tool?


It does appear that it could be Polish political polticans who are using Food as a political tool to bring down local prices of food down. While doing so it hurts and irate's local farmers.

a reply to: vNex92

That link you posted is 8 MONTHS OLD.

Anyway.

The first shipment of grain from Ukraine to Africa since the war began has docked in Djibouti. The MV Brave Commander is carrying 23,000 tonnes of Ukrainian wheat that is bound for neighbouring Ethiopia, which is in desperate need of food aid. It took two weeks to travel here from southern Ukraine.

www.bbc.com...

Kenya receives second shipment of wheat from Ukraine

www.the-star.co.ke...

And so on and so on.

How you getting on with using Western Technology ? All ok for you is it ?

There needs to be a great reset alright. A complete and utter disconnect, rethink and redistribute of ALL trade and support. All under the vote of the american people. Apparently the EU let's their people decide on the likes of Brexit... Americans should be leading that call not by our lying politicians but by our own votes.

The people we're voting in aren't casting their votes the way we want them to.


So it's pointless?

a reply to: Timber13

Apparently the EU let's their people decide on the likes of Brexit.

The EU had no choice about Brexit. It was a decision made by The UK and The UK alone.

That didn't let us do anything.

a reply to: vNex92

I’m more interested in this coming season.
Will there be fertilizer in Europe and will Ukraine have any crops?

originally posted by: Timber13
There needs to be a great reset alright.

Yes !


A "reset" where globalists are tried Nuremberg-style where appropriate, and executed if convicted and their fortunes seized.

I think the simple explanation is that Europe will pay more than ME/Africa.

great demand for food in the third world but not so much money available. the kleptocrats have to pay for their jumbo jets and exotic zoos and Riviera vacations.

February 2023:

Ukraine wheat: pig feed instead of food for the poorest of the world

The EU fought for a wheat corridor by ship from Ukraine to prevent famine in the poorest countries. But the grain hardly arrived there, instead mainly in Spain - as feed for pig farming.

Without wheat from the breadbasket of Europe, Ukraine, a famine catastrophe would threaten the poorest countries in Asia and Africa. This was the EU's main argument in the negotiations with Russia for further exports of millions of tons of wheat via a corridor to Turkey. Putin agreed, and the departure of the first ships was celebrated worldwide.

But the precious grain was apparently not delivered to the world's poorest countries, as Focus and Handelsblatt reported. Instead, the main customer is said to have been wealthy Spain. Although the Iberians produce enough grain for their own needs. However, Spain is one of the largest pork producers in the world, and 2.9 million tons of wheat and corn from Ukraine went there.

In return, hardly any supplies ended up in the Third World. Just 15 percent of current Ukrainian exports went there. Ethiopia, for example, had to make do with 167,000 tons of wheat, and Sudan with 65,000 tons.

The explanation for the shortfall is simple: Spain paid more money - and Ukraine delivered.
Link (German)
Cheers

Are you kidding. Geography isn’t exactly basket weaving.

a reply to: Timber13

news article on same

The Black Sea Grain Initiative, signed by Russia and Ukraine in July 2022, was designed to alleviate global food shortages by allowing exports to resume from Ukraine and follow a protected sea transit corridor to the poorest countries in the world.

A recent investigation by the Austrian outlet eXXpress, however, says that didn't happen. Almost half of the Ukrainian wheat and corn exports to the EU ended up feeding pigs in Spain to produce its world-famous jamon.

According to eXXpress, only 15% of the exports ended up in the countries at risk of famine, including 167,000 tons in Ethiopia and 65,000 tons in Sudan. Spain, on the other hand, received 2.9 million tons of wheat and corn from Ukraine.

www.feedandgrain.com...


Spanish pig farmers can afford to pay more than African / ME people.

Hella way to starve Africans while blaming Russia and making record profits from the trading of grain. Check Conagra or Monsanto stock prices lately?

Does no one get that the OP's link is eight months old?

Sam Kinison said it best " move where the food is!"
He was not just funny, he was right 😁