"Ukraine, known as the "breadbasket of Europe" given it's long been
among the world's top 
ten wheat exporters and supplied over $6 billion
in agricultural products to the European Union in 2020, has issued an emergency order Wednesday banning the export of grains and other products.
The
ban includes the export of wheat, oats, millet, buckwheat, sugar, live
cattle, meat, and other products considered vital to the global economy.
But amid wartime, and with Ukraine's government saying many of its
citizens are now starving under Russian siege, Ukraine’s minister of
agrarian and food policy Roman Leshchenko said the drastic action was taken to avert a "humanitarian crisis in Ukraine," stabilize the market and "meet the needs of the population in critical food products," according to the AP." ZH
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