{"id":353547,"date":"2024-04-16T13:38:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T11:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/04\/16\/ucraina-agricoltura-ricostruzione-86-mld\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T13:21:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T11:21:41","slug":"ukraine-86-1-billion-reconstruction-spending-on-agriculture-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/04\/16\/ukraine-86-1-billion-reconstruction-spending-on-agriculture-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine, $86.1 billion reconstruction spending on agriculture alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; A total of $86.1 billion, twice France&#8217;s recovery plan: that&#8217;s the cost of reconstruction for Ukraine&#8217;s agricultural sector alone if the ongoing war were to end now. Estimating the damage to a sector that is critical to food security is the European Parliament&#8217;s think tank, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/thinktank\/en\/document\/EPRS_BRI(2024)760432\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a study<\/a> is beginning to\u00a0calculate the entity of the action plan of the country&#8217;s partners. <strong>By the end of 2023, Ukraine&#8217;s primary sector &#8220;suffered an estimated $80 billion in damage,&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>the analysts note.<\/p>\n<p>Rebuilding to revive the industry will not\u00a0come at an insignificant cost. Restoring the industry alone will entail a $56.1 billion expenditure in addition to another $32 billion to remove unexploded mines, thereby enabling the recovery of fertile land. <strong>Total: $86.1 billion,<\/strong> the equivalent of two recovery plans for France alone (value \u20ac40.3 billion, about $42.8 billion).<\/p>\n<div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"visualisation\/17584466\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>In more detail, the agriculture portion alone (the $56.1 billion) envisages $9.4 billion <span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">to replace the lost resources needed to restart the industry.<\/span><\/span> The remaining <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">$46.7 billion, estimated over ten years,\u00a0is to restore\u00a0agricultural production to pre-war levels.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"><strong>The estimated damage to Ukraine&#8217;s agriculture<\/strong> includes stolen, destroyed, or damaged assets totaling $10.3 billion, of which agricultural machinery accounts for 56.7 percent of the lost value.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">An estimated 181 thousand pieces of agricultural equipment were damaged or destroyed, while 2.8 million tons of grain, 1.2 million tons of oilseeds, and 124 thousand tons of fertilizer were lost. In addition, about 11.6 million liters of fuel were &#8220;lost or stolen.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">But there is more than just the production aspect. There is also the issue of storage for the country&#8217;s economic system and the agricultural sector. &#8220;Storage facilities are also a recurring target of Russian attacks,&#8221; the study\u00a0points out, and <strong>it is\u00a0estimated that Ukraine has lost nearly 20 percent of its storage capacity.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The \u20ac50 billion EU aid promised to Kyiv for reconstruction\u00a0seems to be insufficient, as the primary sector alone requires much more, and even more will be required as the conflict continues. The study, therefore, highlights the effort that the international community will have to make to support Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The estimates in a study by the EU Parliament&#8217;s think tank. That&#8217;s twice France&#8217;s recovery plan. Almost a third just to remove mines. 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