Russia begins ban on grain exports after fires devastate crops
With the world food bank near exhausted from the past few years of shortages, this is certainly not good news heading into fall/winter in the Northern Hemisphere. Meanwhile the flooding in China and the subcontinent of Asia also has to be having some effects on crops there.
Russia has imposed a ban on wheat and other grain exports until the end of the year after a severe drought and an outbreak of wildfires destroyed one-third of the harvest and ravaged agricultural land.
Exports of grain have been banned in Russia, as authorities try to reduce the chance of a food shortage following the destruction of crops in wildfires.
An estimated 10 million hectares of agricultural land has been devastated by the fires following the worst heatwave in Russian history.
Russia is one of the world’s biggest producers of wheat, barley and rye. However a quarter of the country’s crops have been destroyed, according to President Dmitry Medvedev.