date:Apr 17, 2014
e there is an optimistic mood in agriculture in the Black Sea area, Crimea is the one area that appears to have suffered.
Where Crimea was expected to produce between 1.5 and 2 million tonnes of grain it only produced 1.3 million tonnes, because of crop failure.
And the president of the Russian Grain Union, Arkardy Zlochevsky, has said that there are difficulties in planting in Crimea.
Much of the problem lies in the fact that Crimea used to receive seed, fuel and fertiliser from Ukraine, the