"Preliminary estimates since June indicate that losses caused to the agricultural sector as a result of the war are between $4 billion and $6 billion, including damage to infrastructure such as irrigation equipment, storage facilities, shipping and processing infrastructure, greenhouses, field crops, agricultural ," Mykhalchuk said at a briefing at the Media Center Ukraine in Kiev on Friday.
She noted that this year, according to FAO estimates, Ukraine expects to harvest up to 51 million tons of grain.
"Given the areas directly affected by the war, only 61 million tons of the total 75 million storage facilities are physically available. 14% are damaged or destroyed, 10% are placed on Russian-occupied territory," Mykhalchuk said.
According to her, 35% of the available storage facilities remain filled with 22 million tons of grains and oilseeds awaiting export.
PigUA.info by materials agravery.com