The black earth of Ukraine has the potential to triple the country's exports of grain if investors are willing to take the risk.
In a few years’ time Ukraine could regain its position as a global breadbasket, realising the huge agricultural potential of its famous chernozem (black earth), one of the most fertile soils in the world. Agriculture is one of the prime assets of this former Soviet republic, much as in Russia and Kazakhstan, with which it forms an eastern corn belt. Farming is all the more important as Ukraine lacks its neighbours’ gas and mineral resources.
