The Reid family harvest their wheat crop near Cremona, Alta., Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020. Canada is the world’s sixth-largest producer and one of the largest exporters of wheat, annually producing an average of over 25 million tonnes and exporting around 15 million tonnes. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
A new agreement reached between Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania looks to expedite grain exports from the war-torn Eastern European country in hopes of boosting the Ukrainian economy, reducing European trade tensions and bolstering global food security. The deal between the three nations comes a month after Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary unilaterally banned local imports of Ukrainian food products after an E.U.-wide ban was lifted mid-September.