Profitability of crop production in Ukraine in 2017 may almost halve compared to the previous year, to 25.3%, according to the press service of the National Scientific Center "Institute of Agrarian Economics."
The so-called head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic ("DPR"), Alexander Zakharchenko, has reportedly ordered to seize all crops, namely vegetables, fruit, grapes, etc., grown by households on "unauthorized" plots of land, according to the "republic's" website.