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Before the war, Ukraine was one of the world's largest exporters of wheat, supplying 10 per cent of the world's total. Today many farms on the frontlines are overgrown and littered with landmines.

Those that are functioning have been hindered by the recent Russian bombardments. Transportation is at a near standstill and prices have risen so dramatically that some countries are considering cheaper, more reliable alternatives.

Kees Hauzinger is a farmer in Ukraine. He told Newsday: 鈥淚t鈥檚 good for鈥�other countries that they start producing their own crops and be less dependent. Then Ukraine has to kind of reinvent itself and to look for other crops to grow.鈥�

(Picture: A Ukrainian serviceman searches for land mines in a wheat field in Donetsk region on October 7th 2022. Credit: Anatolii Stepanov / AFP via Getty Images.)