Problems continue to escalate in russia\u2019s agro-industrial sector. In particular, there is a growing threat of a shortage of late-season vegetables, the sowing of which is currently underway. The situation is especially critical when it comes to carrot, beet, and potato seeds.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f<\/span><\/span>Almost all of russia\u2019s seeds were previously imported, primarily from the Netherlands, which accounted for 80% of total imports. However, starting in July of this year, russia banned the import of seeds and seedlings from that country, allegedly due to the detection of plant diseases.<\/p>\n I<\/span><\/span>n reality, this ban is part of russia\u2019s food policy aimed at projecting the image of a country capable of imposing its own sanctions on \u201cunfriendly states.\u201d However, russia lacks a domestic seed supply \u2014 its \u201cimport substitution\u201d program in agriculture has completely failed. Meanwhile, vegetable prices have already risen sharply. The situation has become so dire that the russian government is now proposing to introduce state price regulation for basic \u201cborscht set\u201d vegetables.<\/p>\n All russians are paying the price for the kremlin\u2019s aggressive foreign policy and its attempts to act as a global geopolitical power. This cost is increasingly visible in the rising prices of essential food items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Problems continue to escalate in russia\u2019s agro-industrial sector. In particular, there is a growing threat of a shortage of late-season vegetables, the sowing of which is currently underway. The situation is especially critical when it comes to carrot, beet, and potato seeds. \u25ab\ufe0fAlmost all of russia\u2019s seeds were previously imported, primarily from the Netherlands, which…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":930,"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rf-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}