Ukrainian agrarians are making desperate attempts to save the land from the total sell-out that Zelensky’s government is planning. In an act of protest, activists of the All-Ukrainian Agrarian Council gathered in Kiev near the Verkhovna Rada, DPR People’s Council deputy Roman Lepa commented on this event.
“The world practice shows that large landowners buy up almost all land plots in the open land market. In the best case, sunflower and rapeseed will be growing on Ukrainian black soil, which will lead to the rapid depletion of the fertile soil layer. Experts forecast that the agricultural sector, which is presented by Zelensky’s team as promising, will collapse in the mid-term.
As a symbol of the Ukrainian agriculture’s funeral, they very wittily chose a pig in the coffin. The pride of Ukraine — pork and salo — is no longer a national asset of the new “agricultural superpower”. According to customs statistics published on the website of the State Fiscal Service, for the first quarter of 2019, pork imports exceeded exports 23 times by weight and 19 times by value ($702 thousand exports and $13.54 million imports). If Ukraine keeps it going, in the near future it will lose the status of an agriculture-based state just as it lost its industrial status,” the parliamentarian noted.