Crops At Risk In Ukraine And For Its Food Import Partners

Crops At Risk In Ukraine And For Its Food Import Partners

The citizens of Ukraine are suffering the most tragic and immediate consequences of Russian aggression, but for nations that normally benefit from Ukraine’s agricultural productivity, the war puts a significant part of their food supply at risk. As Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine continues, it is unlikely that its agricultural sector will be able to produce the quantities of food, feed and biofuel crops it would normally have grown. Since Ukraine is a major agricultural exporter, this is likely to exacerbate the supply chain disruptions already occurring because of blocked shipments. USAI

It is impossible to predict what will or won’t be grown, harvested or shipped for the 2022 growing season, but the following tables and graphs are intended to profile the effected crops and export customers at risk for the 2022 growing season. They are based on 2020 data from FAOSTATS, an international production and trade dataset collated by the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

The first table describes the top 10 Ukrainian crops produced in terms of metric tonnes. Those harvests mostly represent between 2 and 6 percent of the world supply of many commodities, but Ukraine produced 26% of the worlds sunflower seed in 2020. The table