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Ukraine's agricultural production will drop this year due to contamination of the farmland with landmines, the government-run Ukrinform news agency reported, citing a senior official.
More than 2.6 million hectare of Ukraine's agricultural lands need to be cleared from unexploded ordnance, said Ukraine's First Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko on Wednesday.
"The demining programme may take many years, but we must begin it now," Svyrydenko added.
At the same time, she emphasised that Ukraine is willing to extend the Black Sea grain deal and actively use the European routes to boost its grain exports, Xinhua news agency reported.
As of the beginning of this month, Ukrainian farmers harvested 53.2 million ton of grain and legumes from last year's harvest from 97 per cent of the sowed areas.
Ukraine, once known as a breadbasket of Europe, has about 42.8 million hectare of high-quality farmland suitable for growing grain and raising livestock.
(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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First Published: Thu, February 23 2023. 09:03 IST
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