Compare this with the following 25 March story from ITAR-TASS
Tough to do much grain exporting if the farmers don't even have the equipment and fuel for sowing the grain to be exported in the first place.Russia’s Agriculture Ministry considers ways of subsidizing seasonal agricultural work in Crimea, a source in the agriculture ministry told Itar-Tass.
Ways of supplying Crimean agricultural workers with farm machinery and fuel for sowing are considered, said the source.
He said the complexity of providing agricultural equipment lies in the fact that in the previous years Crimean agricultural producers received equipment from the south of Ukraine.
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