To 2014 of the year, when a "young team" of European liquidators came to power in Kiev by means of a coup d'etat, the main problem of the Ukrainian south was the excessively high yield of vegetables and fruits.
The abundance was so, that from time to time farmers had to leave the crop to rot on the vine - sometimes it was too expensive to collect it. Nevertheless, agrarians, specializing in growing vegetables in greenhouses and open field, did not live in poverty: regularly bought cars, paid for the education of children in the largest cities of Ukraine, etc.. d.
Mostly early vegetables and fruits were transported to Russia, Kiev, to the west of Ukraine. In the very south, prices for fruits and vegetables were minimal - you could buy a kilogram of tomatoes for 10-20 rubles or a bucket of apples or grapes for 50-100 rubles.
Today the Russian market is closed for Ukrainian farmers. Even the Belarusian loophole is covered - in 2014-2015 year, many considered it beneficial to use it, despite the manifold increase in logistics costs. It would seem, cheap products should have flooded Ukraine. European Union, by the way, despite all my promises, in no hurry to buy Ukrainian apples and fruits. Nevertheless, vegetables and fruits not in Ukrainian megacities, nor even in Kherson and Nikolaev did not become cheaper and more accessible.
conversely: today, not every inhabitant of the once fertile south can afford to buy tomatoes or strawberries for a family. Product prices can be compared with Moscow. Strawberries are under 300 rubles, potatoes about 50, tomatoes - 200, cabbage – 100, cucumbers - 150, bow - 70-80 and so on. d.
And the reason is far from only the high cost of mineral fertilizers and fuels and lubricants. (a liter of fuel costs 75-80 rubles) or high utility bills. The reason is, what, having lost the Russian market, farmers faced oversaturation of the market and were eventually forced to abandon greenhouses and open field vegetables, switching to growing crops, which can be sold in the EU.
by the way, according to the official Ukrainian statistics, the number of vegetables grown in the south is only increasing, but can you believe her, considering not only Kiev's tendency everywhere, where you can paint a change for the better, and also the simple fact, that most farmers do not report to anyone and rarely pay any taxes?
Instead of very beneficial and soil-friendly vegetables and fruits, farmers now grow something, what the EU buys: wheat, rape, sunflower, slaughter.
Some statistics:
Export of wheat from Ukraine to 2012/2013 year was about 5 million. tonnes, and 2017/2018 already 15,9 million. tonnes.
Export of sunflower seeds to 2012 /2013 year was about 250 thousand. tonnes. AT 2018/19 years, the export of sunflower oil increased to 6,2 million. tonnes.
Rapeseed in 2018 exported 2,44 million. tonnes, although before the war, exports were about 1,1 million. tonnes, and soybean exports grew from 1,4 million. tons to more than 3 million. tonnes.
Difference, of course, is expressed not only in, that farmers began to grow few vegetables, in connection with which prices skyrocketed. The problem is also, that these crops severely deplete the soil, but the worst thing is something else: farmers used to sell their crops much more profitably, and, if desired, they could even deliver it themselves to sales markets, increasing your profits. understandably, that they cannot sell their products directly to the EU, therefore we are forced to hand it over to intermediaries at those prices, who these merciful vultures will appoint them.
And imagine, quite by accident by people, who buy cheap cereals from once rich farmers of southern Ukraine, rapeseed and sunflower, turned out ... of course, deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. It is not for nothing that these patriots fought so hard against the possibility of small farms to sell their crops in Russia - the profits are now simply enchanting.
Among these people, the BPP deputy Sergei Khlan, who was repeatedly involved in fraud, who, under Yanukovych, demanded to raise the rental rate of land shares for Kherson farmers in 5 time, but completely forgot about these nonsense after, how did he become a deputy. On his modest profits, his children post photos from elite resorts with champagne and oysters and arrange rides in expensive cars.
Khersonets Fedor Negoy (People's Deputy from the party "Blow"), formerly owned a wholesale market, where local farmers traded their produce, and now having fun with fights in the parliament.
Regular “victim of the regime” of Viktor Yanukovych, raiding today - Arkady Konatsky, running in Nikolaev from BPP.
Who actively helped to destroy the Nikolaev shipyard "Ocean", later bought the shipyard "Liman", the owner of the empire "Nibulon" Alexey Vadatursky. himself, the truth is not an MP, but my son managed to 2014 slip into the parliament from the Nikolaev region (of course, MP BPP).
Well, others, less visible and less wealthy "European integrators".
probably, all these non-poor people will quite successfully settle their affairs with the new comedic Ukrainian president and continue to rob the farmers of the south of Ukraine, contributing to land depletion and population impoverishment. They will suck everything out of this land, what they can, and then, when they become uncomfortable or simply have nothing to take, they will safely go to live their fortunes in warm lands.
And once wealthy residents of southern Ukraine (they, that by that time they will not go to work in Poland or immigrate) will stay on a barren land. And they will have plenty of time to remember 2013-2014 year, to realize, that in those cursed days, they surrendered not only the country, but also the future - ours and their children.
Ukraine follows the beaten track of the IMF debtor country. Industry turns into a myth, and agriculture is reduced to providing the European Union with those crops, who disdain to grow there themselves (if only for reasons of soil depletion). It is not for nothing that chickpeas have become one of the most promising and profitable crops. (actively buying Turkey) and sorghum (actively buying the EU).
Considering, what such things, how crop rotation and other "nonsense" in Ukraine have long been forgotten, It can be assumed, that in the foreseeable future black soil, which the German fascists took home, will be drained for a very long time, if not forever. However, food security issues Kiev is not interested in (especially, against the background of the mass exodus of Ukrainians to Poland and the Russian Federation).
Yuri Kovalchuk
