1933 is the year of Ukraine.Stalin, who boarded the pinnacle of the Soviet Union's power, ended his first "five -year plan" in 1932, pushed industrialization in the city, and "successfully" implemented the agricultural collective policy;"In the painful price, the Communist Party was not as good as expected, and asked farmers to pay grains in accordance with the plan. In order to meet the standards, farmers forced farmers to pay the seeds relying on the next harvest.Historian Timothy Snyder said Stalin had intentionally letting millions of Ukraine starve to death, a classic case of racial extinction.
After 90 years, food has once again become a weapon for Russians to deal with Ukraine.After the war in February 2022, Russian President Putin blocked the Black Sea Port and stifled the economic lifeblood of Ukraine exported grains.Under the mediation of the United Nations and Turkey, Russia and Ukraine reached an agreement in August last year to open some of the black sea port exported grains.In order to support Ukraine, the European Union opened a "way of unity", allowing Ukraine to be exempt from tariffs and restrictions from quotas, and sold it to the Middle East, Africa and other places through Eastern European neighbors.However, for less than a year of unity, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria have shouted cards.
A Romanian farmer said: "I am sad for Ukraine, and I feel heartache for myself." The warehouse was full of the cheap competition of Ukraine grains, and he was in a crisis of bankruptcy.After the opening of unity, it should be just the transit Ukrainian wheat, corn, rapeseed, sunflower seeds and sunflower oil flowing into the local market and lowered the price.Since the outbreak of the war, Poland, who is worried about the cold lips, supports Ukraine, accepts refugees, and sent a large number of weapons. However, in early April this year, Polish farmers' traction machines and trucks full of Ukraine grains confront the border of solidarity.The angry farmers also threw eggs to Polish Minister of Agriculture Henryk Kowalczyk and forced him to step down.
The noisy children have sugar?
Shortly after the opening of the way of unity, the Eastern European farmers complained last September that a large number of Ukrainian grains were blocked on railways, highways and ports.The grains are mixed with local grains and sold them to downstream manufacturers at low prices to make flour, bread, and cakes through the EU market.The crops that swarmed into Ukraine also pushed the transportation costs of Eastern European countries, which worsened the situation of local farmers.
The Polish EU agricultural executive committee member Janusz Wojciechowski ignored the warnings, claiming that "crops from Ukraine did not cause any damage or negative impact on EU farmers, and there was no deterioration price."Walzk encourages farmers to accumulate grains and "because the price will rise."However, global grain prices have been cut from high earlier last year.
Poland will be elected in the second half of this year. The current ruling right law and the Justice Party will be conservative and resolutely anti -Russia to condense public opinion, but because Ukraine's grains offend the rural iron ticket warehouse.Party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski hurriedly cut with Kovalzk and replaced the New Agriculture Minister.Ukrainian grains such as Poland and other five Eastern European countries are prohibited from entering the country, which obviously violates the regulations of the European Union's free trade.The ban, but this triggered a dispute over the failure to defend the European Union and promoted the atmosphere of "noisy children with sugar."
International grain merchants take the profit of fishermen?
The EU Agricultural Commission decided that according to the average inventory value of each country in the first five years, the current inventory is affected by the Lairen Valley's Logistics. In this way, Romania does not meet the subsidy standards.However, Voghovsky rejected the standards he set, saying that Romania is an important hub for unblocked Ukraine grains, and it should be given subsidies.In fact, Romania last year due to drought apology, some grain vendors also purchased Ukrainian grains to supplement the local output.
After the outbreak of the war, in order to rescue Ukrainian crops that are difficult to ship from the Black Sea, the European Union subsidized 2 million euros (about S $ 2.94 million) and was repaired in the Galadi port, which has been abandoned in eastern Romania for a long time, and then passed through the inland inland.The waterway leads to the Port of Costanza in Black Sea, and then shipped to Africa and other places.However, the infrastructure of Heyun is insufficient, and cargo ships often have long queues.Similar situations also occur in railway transportation. The Soviet -style orbit of Ukraine is different from European specifications. It must be hung on the border to hang containers. The time is stretched and the cost is also raised.EU officials are still willing to believe that the goods are smooth. It is determined that Ukraine's grain is only through the EU border. There is no request to track the flow of cargo.
When some international big grain merchants are in the war, they use various pipelines to output Ukraine's grains. When the global suffering is suffering from inflation, poor countries fall into famine. Cargill, BUNGE and ADMThe three major grain merchants all made huge profits last year.However, when the Eastern European countries propose to sharing the expenses of infrastructure, grain merchants believe that once the inherent ports in the Black Sea restore normal, these investments will be put into capital and refuse to contribute capital.
Eastern European farmers complained that Ukraine's grains have caused them to survive difficulties, but they also emphasized that Ukraine still supports Russia, but it only assists in a more fair and transparent way.As the war entered the second year, the dispute over the border was only the tip of the iceberg with a huge economic cost in a long tug -of -war.The International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates that if the war can end by the end of 2024, Ukraine will have to raise at least $ 123.5 billion (about S $ 16.44 billion) by 2027.However, the country's ruins and economic collapse, the United States and European governments, as the main gold owners, have pushed their debts between the epidemic, and the assistance is becoming more and more stretched. Whoever pays Ukraine's economy is still unknown.
The author is a Taiwanese journalist and a doctor of sociology living in Italy
