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Hungarian government urges transporting grain from Ukraine by land
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A catastrophic food shortage in many poor countries worldwide cannot be avoided unless “a corridor is opened from Ukraine to transport grain by land”, István Nagy, the minister of agriculture, said in an interview to daily Magyar Nemzet published on Tuesday.
Such a move requires high-level international cooperation, the minister said, adding that “the infrastructure to receive and forward 20 million tonnes of grain should be built first”. He warned that any delay in implementation could lead to mounting social tensions and “even to the war spreading to other countries”.
Concerning the Hungarian economy, Nagy said 4,265 billion forints (EUR 1.1bn) will be spent on modernising the agricultural and food sector in the next four years. “This is over three times as much as in the past seven years, and it means that we can close the gap with our competitors,” he insisted.
Hungary is in a good position because “we can produce twice as much food as we need”, he said.
Just how stupid is István Nagy? Grain IS being transported by such road and rail as is possible. The logistics are that it would take 5 years to export the amount that is in stores in Ukraine at the present time, let alone future harvests. Road and rail cannot move the quantities that shipping does. Perhaps he is also on the Kremlin payroll……..?