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European Union ministers have been meeting to find ways to move grain vital to global food security out of Ukraine, after Russia halted a deal that allowed exports via the Black Sea.

Some nations are concerned about the costs of overland transportation and there are also fears that an influx of cheaper Ukrainian wheat will cause prices to tumble in countries bordering the war-ravaged nation.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian farmers are looking for their own alternatives.

Andriy Dykun is head of the Agrarian Council, which represents farmers across Ukraine. He spoke to Newsday from Jordan in Amman where he and a group of farmers are 鈥渢rying to find markets for our grain by ourselves鈥�It鈥檚 not so difficult to find markets, the problem is logistics鈥�In Ukraine there are no aeroplanes anymore so we need to go through Eastern Europe like for example Romania or Warsaw鈥�but at the moment it looks like the export of grain from Ukraine to the EU is blocked by Poland mainly鈥�I think it was a political decision鈥�they were together with Russian propaganda actually鈥�.

(Picture: Shows a stork walking across a field as a combine harvests wheat near Kivshovata village, Kyiv region on July 18, 2023. Credit: Sergei Supinsky /AFP via Getty Images.)

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