Canadian Agriculture Minister Marie\u002DClaude Bibeau said Russia\u0027s \u0027shocking\u0027 attempt to disrupt Ukraine\u0027s food supply was another sign Russian targets are not…
Bibeau, who attended an emergency meeting of G7 agriculture ministers on Friday, said Ukraine’s minister told them Russian forces are hitting grain silos, ports and the infrastructure needed to gather and distribute the harvest, as well as food storage facilities.
Bibeau said this was having a “direct impact on their capacity to produce food for their own population — to feed their population.” But she warned that Canada and the U.S. had a weak harvest last year because of a drought, so stocks of grain were lower than usual. The minister cautioned that consumers should expect a spike in the cost of bread and pasta following a rise in wheat prices after Russia’s invasion. Vegetable oil, another big Ukrainian export, could also be in short supply.
Julie Marshall, Canadian spokeswoman for the World Food Program, said world food prices are at an all-time high and the crisis in Ukraine is hitting “hunger hot spots” hard.
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