Farmers in Ukraine have gone so far as to give away cabbage for free.

In Ukraine's Ternopil region, farmers have found themselves in a critical situation due to the low purchase prices of vegetables, which has led them to decide to distribute the cabbage harvest for free to anyone who wants it, reported Mikhail Apostol, a farmer with 40 years of experience, former deputy in the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada and member of the agricultural committee, as well as a research fellow at the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences of Ukraine, on his social media page. Apostol specifies that in the village of Shvaykivtsi in the Chortkiv district of the region, entire fields of cabbage remain unharvested because selling the produce is not profitable. To prevent the harvest from rotting in the expected frosts, the farmers have allowed anyone to come and pick as much as they can – for personal use, feeding livestock, or for charitable ...