(9 Aug 2022)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kyiv region - 9 August 2022
1. Various of harvester collecting grain
2. Various of worker driving harvester vehicle
3. Close of worker
4. Harvester loads grain onto the truck
5. Worker sitting inside harvester
6. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Borys (no last name given), driver of harvester:
"We always need to eat bread. All people want bread. Without it we will not get anywhere. This is the most important thing."
7. Wide of harvester vehicle and tractor collecting grain
8. Harvester loads grain onto the truck
9 . Grain
10. Worker on truck
11. Wheat
12. Wide of the harvester vehicle collecting grain
13. Agronomist Oleksandr Sivogorlo looking at field
14. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Oleksandr Sivogorlo, chief agronomist of farm:
"So far, while the first ships are being shipped, we understand that this is shipping last year's harvest, which accumulated on the elevators in the ports, which has already been purchased, which only needs to be shipped and delivered to the destinations. The new crop is not being purchased yet, no one is interested in it. The price is according to the market, but there is no purchase process itself."
15. Wide of the field
16. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Oleksandr Sivogorlo, chief agronomist of farm:
"At this time, the main goal is not to earn, but to survive. Give employees the opportunity to work and earn a salary. Pay for water. Pay taxes. So far, we are not talking about updating the equipment, improving the cultivation of crops. The main goal is to hold out for a year until the port is unblocked and the issue of food sales is resolved."
17. Harvester and tractor collecting grain
18. Grain in filtration process
19. Wide of hangar
20. Truck driving inside warehouse
21. Truck pouring out grain
22. Various of grain in warehouse
23. Sivogorlo takes grain in his hands
24. Wide of grain inside warehouse
25. Wide of farm, goats
26. Small goats drinking milk
27. Close of goat
STORYLINE:
Farmers in Ukraine's Kyiv region are ending this year's harvest in uncertainty in the face of the country's conflict, with recent developments allowing some ships to transport grain in the Black Sea providing little comfort.
Oleksandr Sivogorlo, who works as the chief agronomist of one farm, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that about 3,000 tons of last year's grain and winter crops which they could not sell this season due to blocked ports continue to be buried in their warehouses.
Sivogorlo said that the situation has not improved with the first ships, because they are now exporting last year's harvest. With the rates of transport, this year's harvest won't be moved until next year.
Sivogorlo noted that a large number of farmers will not be able to sow a new crop due to lack of finances.
The agronomist himself shared that their main goal now is to survive, not to make money. He also added that the situation could lead to a shortage of bread already next year.
"At this time, the main goal is not to earn, but to survive", - said Sivogorlo.
This year, in general, they plan to collect 4.5 thousand tons of grain, which will be stored in warehouses until the export issues are resolved.
Four of the carriers cleared Sunday to leave Ukraine were transporting more than 219,000 tons of corn. The fifth was carrying more than 6,600 tons of sunflower oil and the sixth 11,000 tons of soya, the Joint Coordination Center said.
Three other cargo ships that left Friday passed their inspections and received clearance Sunday to pass through Turkey's Bosporus Strait on the way to their final destinations, the Center said.
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