Neighbouring countries are updating their port infrastructure to help with international exports, while Ukrainian farmers call the bomb squad to defuse undetonated explosives.
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While some crops have left by rail or road via neighbors such as Romania and Poland, millions of metric tons have piled up on farms and a lack of shipments from one of the world's biggest grain exporters is pushing up global food prices.
KHRESHCHATE, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukrainian farmer Mykola Tereshchenko hopes to start harvesting his wheat fields this week, but the smallholder in northern Ukraine has nowhere to store the grain.