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Ukraine’s homegrown harvest

Ukraine’s farms are under attack. Russian forces are burning or stealing grain and vegetables. What can the outside world do? One Polish village has some answers.

Ukraine’s farms are under attack. Russian forces are burning or stealing grain and vegetables. The main growing regions in the south are under occupation, cutting off the country from its usual supplies of fresh food. What can the outside world do?

Monica Whitlock reports from the village of Brożec in western Poland where farmers have rallied round to send seeds to smallholdings and allotments in Ukraine - ‘Victory Gardens’ in President Zelensky’s words. Each garden feeds far more than one family, as Ukrainian villagers take in internally displaced people from the cities. But as the season for harvest approaches, far more worrying problems face Ukraine’s beleaguered farmers.

Producers :Monica Whitlock and Grzegorz Sokol

(Photo by Alex Chan/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images)

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Thu 16 Jun 2022 19:06GMT

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