Nearly 25 mln tonnes of grains are stuck in Ukraine and unable to leave the country due to infrastructure challenges and blocked ports, Josef Schmidhuber, FAO Deputy Director, Markets and Trade Division told a Geneva press briefing on May 6, Reuters informed.
“It's an almost grotesque situation we see at the moment in Ukraine with nearly 25 mln tonnes of grain that could be exported but that cannot leave the country simply because of lack of infrastructure, the blockade of the ports”, – he said.
Schmidhuber added the full silos could result in storage shortages during the next harvest in July and August.
