Lviv | Reuters — Ukraine plans to start sowing spring grains in the coming days and has enough grain in stocks to ensure the population has enough bread, deputy agriculture minister Taras Vysotskiy said Saturday.
He said the country, which consumes eight million tonnes of wheat a year, had six million tonnes in stocks. Stocks also include 15 million tonnes of corn and a five-year supply of sunflower oil.
The government will introduce a plan to support the planting campaign in an effort to safeguard food supplies amid Russia’s invasion, Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said separately Sunday.
Ukraine has sufficient volumes of basic food products for the next few months, he said in a statement, adding that “we must also think about the future. Therefore the government is implementing a plan to support the sowing campaign, which should start soon where possible.”
— Reporting for Reuters by Pavel Polityuk.
