was a great rush of activity to try and figure out where the grain could be shipped, overland, trains, trucks. there has been some acc aspect of this. if you just look how the sheer numbers we re looking at, upwards to this point, as nic said, more than 9 million tons of grain has come out of ukraine. that s just a small percentage of the overall amount of grain that ukraine produces. and other agricultural products. it just doesn t make sense logistically to get it out of the road, through into the european union and elsewhere. it has to be by ship to be effective. and it s a snowball effect. at the moment, it s the current harvest that still needs to get out. they have had a bumper harvest in that region. and it means that if this blockade continues, it really could have a major knock-on effect with inflation and provide a great deal of pressure on nations, especially here in africa, to say there needs to be some kind of negotiated
English wine producer Chapel Down said this year's long, warm summer has produced a bumper harvest, which is good news for fans of the UK wine industry
SHUOZHOU, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) In a village in north China Shanxi Province, farmers are reaping a bumper harvest in saline-alkali field.Produced by Xinhua Global
that wasjohn that was john maguire that wasjohn maguire reporting there. experts are predicting a bumper harvest of apples this year, despite the summer heatwave that damaged some crops. and although traditional orchards are in decline, there s been a rise in a new generation of community orchards set up on shared green spaces. 0ur environment correspondent helen briggs went to find out more. nothing spells autumn like apples, but gathering to share the harvest is becoming a thing of the past, as traditional orchards vanish from the land. this orchard, at swan barn farm, is one of a new generation of community orchards, where people club together to plant fruit trees on local green spaces. so they re not connected to their computers or their mobiles or their tvs. so there s a being away from the usual hubbub of life, just coming somewhere that s