Sign of the times: Ukraine’s small dairy farms are disappearing

The U.N.-led Food Security and Livelihoods Cluster warned in May of an impending "rural crisis" for "household" farms in Ukraine "driven by prolonged conflict, rising fodder costs, declining profitability of smallholder dairy production, and disrupted rural market systems."

"Smaller farms today are in quite a dire situation," said Hanna Lavreniuk, the director general of Ukraine’s Association of Milk Producers (AMP). But, she warned, even mid-sized farms are at risk.

For some farms, "it will be the last season."

Photo: Maksym Kishka / The Kyiv Independent