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discocrisco01

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Wed May 18, 2022, 08:15 PM May 2022

Blinken announces $215 million in new emergency food assistance for Ukraine

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN)The US will give Ukraine an additional $215 million in emergency food assistance to help the country battle the humanitarian crisis brought on by Russia's invasion, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Wednesday, as he called on other countries to swiftly act in order to tackle the growing global food crisis.

"Today, given the urgency of the crisis, we're announcing another $215 million in new emergency food assistance, and we'll do much more," Blinken said at the United Nations during a ministerial meeting on global food security. "We expect our Congress very soon to approve approximately $5.5 billion in additional funding for humanitarian assistance and food security."

Blinken also said that the US would be committing $500 million to boost US production of fertilizer. The new assistance comes as there is an increased need for fertilizer in countries that typically got it from Russia, which is the world's largest exporter of fertilizer. The cost of fertilizer, essential for farmers to hit their production targets for crops, has also risen as output in Europe has plunged due to the surging price of natural gas -- a key ingredient in nitrogen-based fertilizers like urea

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/18/politics/ukraine-food-assistance-blinken/index.html

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Blinken announces $215 million in new emergency food assistance for Ukraine (Original Post) discocrisco01 May 2022 OP
K & R putin's smash & grab in Ukraine will cost RU their world market on goods... Budi May 2022 #1
Domestic stock are the greatest producers of urea out there, no natural gas needed Warpy May 2022 #2
 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
1. K & R putin's smash & grab in Ukraine will cost RU their world market on goods...
Wed May 18, 2022, 08:20 PM
May 2022
Blinken also said that the US would be committing $500 million to boost US production of fertilizer. The new assistance comes as there is an increased need for fertilizer in countries that typically got it from Russia, which is the world's largest exporter of fertilizer.

Other countries will gladly step into the market & produce what Putin once owned

Warpy

(110,913 posts)
2. Domestic stock are the greatest producers of urea out there, no natural gas needed
Wed May 18, 2022, 10:42 PM
May 2022

you just need to harvest the pee instead of letting it all flow into settling ponds that stink for miles and miles.

They all seem to be determined to do it the most bassackward way they can in order to keep their hands cleaner.

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