Since March 2022, the future of Ukrainian agricultural exports has not been as threatened as it is now, when neighboring EU member states are restricting imports of agricultural products.
What to sow? What to invest in? What to expect from the new season? You will find the answers to these and other hot questions in the latest episode of #myTRADING podcast! The guest of the episode is Tair Musayev, Vice President of Grain Alliance, who, together with regular experts Denys Mararenko and Yuriy Havryliuk, will share his thoughts and plans for the sowing season and his own vision of how to reduce risks in the next season.
Farmers who leave corn in the field for the winter will receive grain contaminated with mycotoxins in the spring, which they will not be able to sell. The arithmetic used when mixing wheat to optimize quality will not work here. Why can we under-export 4-5 million tons of corn and do we expect prices to rise? Bohdan Kostetsky, Barva Invest's operating partner, told us about this.
What can the UN do? First of all, it can organize direct financial assistance to countries where there is a risk of mass starvation. The problem is not that there is not enough grain in the world, the problem is that grain is expensive and not everyone can afford it. And this is exactly what the UN can do, if it is willing to do so.