In mid-May, the occupiers’ Crimean propaganda continues to “prepare” the population of the peninsula for an “unprecedented harvest.” For example, statements are made by “regional winemakers” such as Kira Efimova, Pavel Shvets, Alexander Plotnikov and Dmitry Shelayev that after a series of frosts and hail on the night of May 14, “harvest losses could amount to 40%,” that the year “can be officially declared the hardest for vineyards,” and that “many farms in the Alma River valley have losses reaching 100%.”
At the same time, “Russian scientists” like Arsen Mirzoyan and Valery Luzhnyak promise the disappearance of “anadromous and semi-anadromous fish: sturgeon, herring, vimba, bream, pike perch and roach” in the Sea of Azov, the stocks of which are “at the lowest level in the entire history of fisheries research”, allegedly “due to the increase in the salinity of Azov”. For example, the stock of the Black Sea-Azov herring “could sharply decrease” from 3,000 to less than 500 tons.
However, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the occupiers to attribute all their “breakthrough achievements” to natural disasters, including the recent “rain with sand from North Africa”. For example, the fake “Minister of Agriculture” Denis Kratyuk, again explaining the shortage of potatoes, which are becoming much more expensive, by a “natural anomaly”, promises a price reduction “when mainland potatoes start to come in”, without promising anything from “regional agricultural producers”.
Let us recall that by “mainland” the occupiers often mean Turkish, Egyptian and even Chinese potatoes, which “so far” have not eliminated the shortage. Similarly, telling fakes about the “increase in milk yield” in livestock farming, the swindlers from the “state council” were forced to admit that on the occupied peninsula the provision of “basic socially significant food products of animal origin due to our own production” is negligible.
For beef, it allegedly amounts to no more than 29%, for lamb – about 12%, milk – 21% and chicken eggs – 45%. Against this background of “growing food security,” the occupiers “delighted the population by saying that “in Sevastopol they destroyed sanctioned cheeses and jamon” from Germany and Spain, in the amount of as many as 5 kilograms. How such a “decisive gesture” will affect the further growth of prices across the entire line of food products is no more than a rhetorical question.
