{"id":239967,"date":"2022-05-06T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/it-s-an-almost-grotesque-situation-nearly-25-million-tons-of-grain-are-stuck-in-ukraine-and-the-un-says-it-doesn-t-know-when-it-can-be-accessed"},"modified":"2022-05-06T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T21:01:00","slug":"it-s-an-almost-grotesque-situation-nearly-25-million-tons-of-grain-are-stuck-in-ukraine-and-the-un-says-it-doesn-t-know-when-it-can-be-accessed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/it-s-an-almost-grotesque-situation-nearly-25-million-tons-of-grain-are-stuck-in-ukraine-and-the-un-says-it-doesn-t-know-when-it-can-be-accessed","title":{"rendered":"‘It’s an almost grotesque situation.’ Nearly 25 million tons of grain are stuck in Ukraine, and the UN says it doesn’t know when it can be accessed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sign up for the Fortune Features email list so you don’t miss our biggest features, exclusive interviews, and investigations.Ukraine was one of the world’s largest exporters of grain before the Russian army invaded and halted grain exports, harvesting 11% of the world’s wheat and 17% of its corn. For decades, it’s been referred to as the breadbasket of Europe.In spite of Russian troops blockading Ukraine’s ports, the country’s harvest has continued, but most crops have been unable to leave Ukraine. Now, millions of tons of grain are sitting idle, and the country’s storage capacity is reaching its limits while the world gets hungrier, according to the UN’s top food agency.Nearly 25 million tons of grain are currently stuck in Ukraine and unable to leave the country due to obstructed seaports and infrastructural issues, said Josef Schmidhuber, an economist with the Food and Agriculture Organization.Speaking at a press briefing on Friday, he warned of an “almost grotesque situation” in Ukraine, in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sign up for the Fortune Features email list so you don’t miss our biggest features, exclusive interviews, and investigations. Ukraine was one of the world’s largest exporters of grain before<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}