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Afaik (from a union leader in my country) farmers are saying they can't compete with Ukrainian grain because everything from the seeds, fertilizer, pesticides and even the diesel they use is highly subsidized by either the US or the EU and local farmers can't compete and it's driving them to starvation and suicide.
If you are in a EU country, then the local agriculture sector is also heavily subsidized by the EU. Agriculture subsidies is the single largest part of the entire EU's budget.
Yeah but what he's saying is that even with the subsidies they get they're unable to sell at a profit, and it's all to do with much cheaper grain coming from Ukraine. If you choose to believe this or not that's up to you, I'm just relaying the message because I haven't seen this being talked about (and ofc I personally tend to believe him). The country in question is Romania, and according to him it's the subsidies they get, the pesticide and fertilizers they're allowed to use, are all crap compared to other European countries whose politicians negotiated much better deals for their farmers than our so called "leaders".
My source is this youtube interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m41LZVjulA&t - but unfortunately it's in Romanian and doesn't have subtitles.
Can you imagine the insane food prices without it?