Rail tariff hikes will result in new losses for Ukrainian farmers


Ukrainian harvests prone to lower in 2024


calendar icon 24 September 2024

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Plans through Ukraine’s state railways Ukrzaliznytsia to extend freight price lists will hit suffering farmers and result in a fall in manufacturing and export volumes, Reuters reported, bringing up Ukrainian farm industry affiliation UCAB.

The affiliation mentioned Ukrzaliznytsia intends to lift the tariff for transporting empty wagons for farmers through 67%.

“This might building up the price of grain transportation through 50-60 hryvnia in step with ton and can result in an building up in farmers’ bills all through the warfare through about 2 billion UAH (just about $50 million) in step with season,” UCAB mentioned in a remark past due on Monday.

Ukrzaliznytsia has mentioned it plans to unify Ukrainian shipping price lists and it would carry them through round 7%. It didn’t verify the determine utilized by UCAB.

Previous this month, plans to lift price lists have been criticised through the buyers’ union, which mentioned it would most effective aggravate the location for farmers affected by falling world meals costs.

Ukrainian harvests are prone to lower in 2024 because of a smaller sowing space brought about through the Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion and detrimental climate.

($1 = 41.3105 hryvnias)



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