Ukraine: three years of resilience

Nieuwsbericht | 24-02-2025 | 17:47

On this day, we want to thank the Ukrainian farmers and suppliers for agrifood sector of Ukraine and their significant contribution to the resilience of Ukraine in recent years.

Ukrainians will remember:

Those, who emptied their stock of fuel, prepared for the sowing season, in order to fuel buses that evacuated residents of destroyed and occupied areas and fueled trucks to pick up humanitarian aid from the border.

Those, who hid enemy tanks with their farm tractors and, while risking their lives, made their way through enemy checkpoints to feed livestock on occupied farms.

Those, who distributed expensive Dutch seeds to everyone who could sow them and later feed thousands of internally displaced people fleeing the war.

Those,  who in cities and villages isolated by the enemy, baked bread in the absence of products according to the recipes of great-grandmothers who survived the famines in Ukraine of 1921-1923, 1932-1933, 1946-1947. And then delivered that bread to residents under constant shelling.

Those, who used to work as drivers of farm machinery, harvesters and tractors, and now have to drive tanks and armored vehicle to defend their country and their families.

Those, whose vegetable sheds became bomb shelters, and who sowed fields in the spring of 2022 while simultaneously pulling out rockets in front of the seeders.

Let’s do not forget those who like gardening and every summer preserved vegetables, fruit, berries and everything that grows in the garden as pickles and jams and then in the occupation these delicious homemade treats were the only food for weeks for their families and neighbors. 

During these years of war, Ukrainian food security depends on professional farmers and those who cannot imagine their lives without gardening.