In early November, the occupiers’ “Crimean media” began to disseminate “good news” that over the year in the Crimea they allegedly “significantly increased the volume of food production”, and the “primary source” of this “comforting information” was such a “Crimean agrarian” as the “Bank of Russia”. However, an analysis of the “food banking agenda” shows that it was drawn up in the “best” traditions of Soviet newspapers, when it was simply impossible to understand the real numbers in the flow of “glorious labor victories”.
For example, “bankers” write that “this year’s sunflower yield turned out to be higher than last year’s and amounted to about 16 c/ha, and on some farms they harvest a record 30 c/ha.” How many of these “record holders” are not reported, and it is simply “modestly kept silent” about the fact that the normal sunflower yield, both on the peninsula before the occupation of Crimea, and on the Ukrainian mainland before the large-scale aggression, was at least 25 centners per hectare.
In addition, the “bankers” forgot to “check their watches” with other aggressor-controlled sources. For example, they write that supposedly “the production of dairy products in January-August increased by almost 24% compared to the same period last year” and that supposedly “now enterprises in the region process more than 300 thousand tons of raw materials per year and meet the needs of the residents of the republic by 40%”.
But just a month ago, the criminal “Krymstat” and other sources wrote that in Crimea in 2022, only “141,631.3 tons of raw milk” were allegedly processed and that in general “the production capacity for processing raw milk totals 330.4 thousand tons per year”, that is, half of them are idle, and “growth by a quarter” would not cover this in any way.
Let us note that the calculation for 300 thousand tons of raw milk as a complete coverage of Crimean residents in products from a regional manufacturer was carried out even before the occupation, and therefore this figure and “40% of the need” were clearly compiled by “bankers” with the calculation that “no one will check this”, and therefore it is extremely interesting what else the “Bank of Russia” considers with this approach.
These attempts to create a “milk fog” are fully characterized by the comments of Crimean inhabitants who sarcastically write the following: “the numbers are growing unspeakably – and the population is rushing about to devour something”; “the more cheerful the announcer, the more anxious our souls are”; “the easiest way is to start inflation and then report on growth”; “new technologies are when Africans milk palm trees and what they milk is sold under the guise of Crimean milk,” recalling that before the collapse of the USSR, the Soviet press also supposedly “milk yields grew, achievements and unprecedented prosperity”.
