Hungary Grain Lobby Urges Cabinet to Scrap Ukraine Import Ban
- Nation’s grain association warns of risk of corn shortage
- Hungary joined Poland and Slovakia in banning Ukrainian grains
A worker unloads harvested wheat grain iin Lajoskomarom, Hungary.
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Hungary’s grain lobby criticized a government ban on agricultural imports from Ukraine, saying it would lead to shortages and undermine efforts to curb the European Union’s highest inflation rate.
The country needs to import about 700,000 tons of feed corn after a poor harvest last year and eastern neighbor Ukraine would be the cheapest supplier, Zsofia Potsa, secretary-general of the Hungarian Grain Association, told Bloomberg in an interview on Friday.