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Ukraine's agriculture sector faces war damage

German independent agriculture consultant and farmer Dietrich Treis talks to DW about his farming activities in Ukraine and how he managed to get out of the country.

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The first UN-chartered vessel MV Brave Commander loads more than 23,000 tonnes of grain to export to Ethiopia, in Yuzhne, east of Odessa on the Black Sea coast, on August 14, 2022. - On July 22, 2022 Kyiv and Moscow signed a landmark deal with Turkey to unblock Black Sea grain deliveries, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. UN's World Food Programme has purchased an initial 30,000 tonnes of Ukrainian wheat. MV Brave Commander has a capacity of 23,000 tonnes. (Photo by OLEKSANDR GIMANOV / AFP)

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, and United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres shake hands after their meeting in Lviv, Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

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ISTANBUL, TURKIYE - AUGUST 03: An aerial view of Sierra Leone-flagged dry cargo ship Razoni, carrying a cargo of 26,527 tons of corn, departed from the port of Odessa arrives at the Black Sea entrance of the Bosphorus Strait, in Istanbul, Turkiye on August 03, 2022. Preparations and planning of the ships carrying grain and other relevant foodstuffs from three Ukrainian ports are currently underway, said an official from the Joint Coordination Center (JCC) in Istanbul on Tuesday. Turkiye, the UN, Russia, and Ukraine signed a deal on July 22 to reopen three Ukrainian ports -- Odessa, Chernomorsk, and Yuzhny -- for grain that has been stuck for months because of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, which is now in its sixth month. Lokman Akkaya / Anadolu Agency

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