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A farm worker poses for a portrait at a dairy farm damaged by Russian attacks in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, on Aug. 16, 2024.
Opinion

Who will work Ukraine's farms as the workforce shortage deepens?

by Robert Haidari

On my way back to Kyiv in October after visiting my partners in eastern Ukraine, I had to get off the train in the middle of the night because Russian drones were headed our way. The foundation I chair teaches displaced Ukrainian women to operate farm machinery through accredited schools, and lately I have been asking myself whether that work makes sense right now. Mobilization and emigration have pulled many of the men who drove tractors and combines out of the fields, and in May, Taras Vysot

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