As many as 94 percent of irrigation systems in the Kherson region now lack a water source. Lars-Erik Lundkvist, industrial policy expert at the Federation of Swedish Farmers, says: "This growing year is, of course, ruined.
Then it is a question of how quickly this damage can be repaired, and that depends on how the war develops" He says that prices of grain have increased since the outbreak of the war and I find it difficult to see that this will lead to the same type of price increases.