Ukraine’s farmers fight against food crisis

Major income: Farmers resting after sowing their field with oat in Kyiv. Agriculture accounted for more than 10% of Ukraine’s economy and 40% of its sales of exported goods before the war. — AF

KYIV: Around this time of year, Yaroslav Andrushko would normally be overseeing the sowing of crops on his 1,000-hectare farm in the Vinnytsya region of central Ukraine.

Instead, he swapped his workwear for fatigues, joining the army a day after Russia invaded his country. “Once a farmer always a farmer,” said Andrushko, the chief executive of a small agriculture company. “But circumstances required us to take up arms.”