Xavier Moreau - Bulletin 94
USAID’s Agriculture Growing Rural Opportunities (AGRO) is a five year, $35 million activity (ending in 2024) designed to strengthen agriculture in Ukraine’s rural communities with the greatest need. The activity has a particular focus on Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Kharkiv, Poltava, Odesa, and Cherkasy Oblasts.
....the same year, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps bought 9% of Ukraine's famously fertile farmland, equal to 5% of the country's total territory, with a 50-year lease. (In 2020, the U.S. imposed sanctions on the Chinese company over human-rights abuses.)30 juin 2022
https://global.ilmanifesto.it/the-truth-about-corporations-taking-over-ukrainian-agricultural-lands/
.....10 multinational agricultural corporations had already come to control 2.8 million hectares of land. Today, some estimates speak of 3.4 million hectares in the hands of foreign companies and Ukrainian companies with foreign funds as shareholders. Other estimates are as high as 6 million hectares.
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This despite the fact that an analysis by Open Democracy published in October revealed that ten private companies controlled 71 percent of the Ukrainian agricultural market, including, “in addition to the Ukrainian oligarchy, multinational corporations such as Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Bunge, Cargill, Louis Dreyfus, and the Chinese state-owned company COFCO.” According to the Oakland Institute’s latest report on the subject, the list now also includes multinational corporations such as Luxembourg-based Kernel, the US holding company NCH Capital, the Saudi-based Continental Farmers and the French AgroGenerations.
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Furthermore, agribusiness development in Ukraine and Eastern Europe is part of the European Commission’s strategic plan to boost “protein crops” and reconvert production in those regions to mainly soybean, for which meeting current EU needs is still largely dependent on imports from Argentina and Brazil.
.....Even amid the pandemic there has been “wide-ranging opposition from the Ukrainian public to reversing that ban, with over 64 percent of the people opposed to the creation of a land market, according to an April 2021 poll.”[3]
Additionally, the IMF loan conditions required that Ukraine must also reverse its ban on genetically engineered crops, and enable private corporations like Monsanto to plant its GMO seeds and spray the fields with Monsanto’s Roundup. In that way, Monsanto hopes to break the boycott by a number of countries in Europe of its genetically engineered corn and soy.
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