Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
Russia announced via Interfax yesterday that the Crimea will be able to export 2M metric tonnes of grain to Russia this year.
Compare this with the following 25 March story from ITAR-TASS
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.
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.