The agricultural sector of Romania suffers from the import of Ukrainian grain

Romanian farmers are going bankrupt because they cannot compete with cheap Ukrainian grain on the domestic market.

At the beginning of the full-scale war, the supply of grain from Ukraine, the world’s largest grain producer, became impossible. In order to avoid world hunger, in May, the EU introduced a set of measures for the export of Ukrainian food “Paths of Solidarity”.

European countries have suspended customs duties and abolished requirements for sanitary and veterinary certificates. Such decisions facilitated the penetration of Ukrainian agricultural products into the markets of neighboring countries.

Romania imported Ukrainian grain worth 1.24 billion dollars, far ahead of any other country in the world. In total, 13.9% of Ukrainian agricultural exports went to Romania last year.

As a result, local grain could not compete with Ukrainian products and, for the most part, is idle in warehouses, reports Euractiv.

The situation on the market is only the first “swallows” of global changes after the reorientation of Ukrainian grain exports. Not only European countries, but the entire world is experiencing significant disruptions in supply chains. It is about the impact not only on the agricultural sector, but also on other industries. Thus, thanks to high quality and low prices, Ukrainian grain quickly captured the European market, displacing local producers. Domestic agrarians and logisticians say that even after the war, Ukraine will not abandon new ways of selling its grain. Therefore, the “butterfly effect” will only spread further. .

USM recently wrote that Ukrainian agricultural products were the cause of farmer’s protests in Bulgaria. Dissatisfied farmers in Poland also organized protests this year, provoked by the popularity of Ukrainian grain.