The ordered rows of farmland in this southwest corner of Ukraine can feel like an anomaly in a country under attack.Ukraine is world's 5th-largest exporter of wheat, as well as a major exporter of corn and sunflower
Fields and pastures in other regions are pockmarked by shelling, with farmers unable to work their land.
Here, in countryside just west of the Black Sea port city of Odesa, trucks spraying insecticide move through planted crops in long, slow sweeps, the metal arms that carry the nozzles spread wide like a dragonfly's wings.
Baby sunflower plants are already reaching skyward and fields of wheat are just starting to deepen in colour.
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Amid Russian naval blockades, Ukrainian farmers fear their grain has nowhere to go | CBC News
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