Casa Robino

The world is getting hungrier and the old "wheat basket" of Eastern Europe is offering new opportunity.You could call it the latest foreign invasion. fleets of ultra-modern combine harvesters are bringing in the harvest from new mega farms.Food security:
But it is not Ukrainian money and know-how which is driving this agricultural revolution. It is foreign governments and companies.Many governments are looking to secure land overseas as a way to ensure the food supply to their country does not fail.In this part of Ukraine it is the British, in the form of the company Landkom, who are making moves which are transforming the landscape, investing millions in machinery and infrastructure.This year the company will harvest 60,000 tonnes of wheat from Ukrainian land holdings totalling some hundred square miles.