Special envoy to Tomashivka (central Ukraine)
Alexandre Postouchenko walks around his three-quarters empty hangar, occupied only by two harvesters and mounds of soybeans and sunflower seeds, which no longer find takers on the grain markets.
On the shelves of Western supermarkets, the prices of raw materials and food products are soaring, but in his village of Tomashivka, in central Ukraine, the owner of Impouls, a small 200-hectare farm, watches helplessly as the continued fall in income.
And struggling to repay his debts.
“
The situation is critical
”, summarizes the farmer, at the head of a company of seven employees, in debt up to his neck.
Then a young graduate of the agricultural university of Ouman, the man had set up his farm "
from nothing
", he explains proudly, he who today cultivates wheat, barley, rapeseed and sunflower.
In a month and a half, he will have to hire 250 seasonal workers to…
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