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Can Ukraine's farms survive the mobilization crunch · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: They've been working towards this moment all year. Oksano Suvorova
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  Speaker 1: holds grain from the fields. A lot is at stake.
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  Speaker 2: It's just the even Dujas Kladnina, the Vistrial branch of Dushniphla, Privuzi,
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  Speaker 2: Privusi Kose, sen Jena da Vodi, the makadad hays definitely period.
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  Speaker 1: She is just one of hundreds of workers helping bring
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  Speaker 1: in the harvest, and right now every pair of hands matters.
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  Speaker 3: This is usually one of the busiest times of the
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  Speaker 3: year for Ukrainian farmers here in southern Ukraine. The barley
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  Speaker 3: harvest has just begun and you can see it's quite busy.
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  Speaker 1: Here behind me.
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  Speaker 3: But at the same time we're being told that there
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  Speaker 3: are simply not enough people left to do all the work.
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  Speaker 3: These days, only around sixty machines are out in the fields,
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  Speaker 3: down from about one hundred and fifty before the full
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  Speaker 3: scale invasion.
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  Speaker 1: There is no lack of machinery, but of people. Agriculture
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  Speaker 1: is now facing a labor shortage of more than thirty percent,
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  Speaker 1: particularly among men of mobilization age such clip.
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  Speaker 4: Not that dust.
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  Speaker 2: In them. You've been seniorstal.
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  Speaker 1: Mal women like Oksana taking up. These jobs are still
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  Speaker 1: an exception. Alexandr Zhenkov runs the business. He tells us
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  Speaker 1: the worst effects on the industry show, especially now during
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  Speaker 1: the harvest.
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  Speaker 5: Norman hs said, who did Wooden race? Can sure it's us?
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  Speaker 5: Cloud clad shatres message, Colm Trata and Timnesty.
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  Speaker 1: The war has put a strain on farmers across the country.
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  Speaker 1: Occupation and the presence of minds has left large parts
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  Speaker 1: of the country inaccessible. On top of that, attacks and
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  Speaker 1: logistics subs like here the port of Odessa continue to
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  Speaker 1: disrupt the industry. Many countries across Africa and the Middle
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  Speaker 1: East depend on Ukrainian agricultural exports, but the revenue they
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  Speaker 1: generate is just as important at.
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  Speaker 4: Home, since the economic lucrine to make sure it is
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  Speaker 4: just slaps the economic akri.
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  Speaker 1: Wearing Western Ukraine. Here, farmer Mikola Melnick is trying to
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  Speaker 1: tackle the shortage of workers through innovation. These greenhouses produced
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  Speaker 1: tomatoes and other vegetables, but they also serve as a
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  Speaker 1: testing ground for new technologies he develops. Melnick only got
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  Speaker 1: into farming five years ago.
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  Speaker 6: By chance Melio Dona.
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  Speaker 1: His background in it helped him build a management system
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  Speaker 1: for the farm. Today, Ai handles many of the daily processes,
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  Speaker 1: reducing the need for manual work.
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  Speaker 6: Native take the polite, slip and law.
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  Speaker 1: Irrigation is controlled by AI based on weather and temperature data.
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  Speaker 1: The system is designed to provide ideal growing conditions while
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  Speaker 1: using as little energy and water as possible. More than
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  Speaker 1: two hundred people worked on Nichola's farm last year. Today,
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  Speaker 1: he says only twenty remain. While automation has helped fill
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  Speaker 1: most gaps, he still has a shortage. He believes rural
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  Speaker 1: communities are affected disproportionately by the draft. The times are challenging,
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  Speaker 1: but he also sees it as an opportunity to become
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  Speaker 1: better prepared for the future. Critical industries are allowed to
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  Speaker 1: exempt some workers from mobilization, but often not enough to
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  Speaker 1: maintain profitability.
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  Speaker 5: She's the set Patriot Bush.
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  Speaker 1: Many fear the problems will worsen over time and could
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  Speaker 1: seriously effect to production out in the fields. One way
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  Speaker 1: of dealing with it is putting in extra hours for Oxana.
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  Speaker 1: It's worth it, but the muss Clas and ross.
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  Speaker 6: Moving so now Luji a.
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  Speaker 2: Matter. Remind you, car Remind you.
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  Speaker 4: It's so great. Stay way, Remind you
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  Speaker 1: Glasses for now that passion is helping keep Ukraine's farms
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  Speaker 1: running