Chifukwa chachikulu cha chisankhochi, malinga ndi Purezidenti wa Chiyukireniya cha Zipatso ndi Masamba ku Ukraine (UPOA) Taras Bashtannik, ndiye mitengo yotsika yazogulitsa mdziko lotumiza kunja. Dziwani kuti kuyamba kulowetsa mbatata panthawi yomwe malo osungira mbatata amadzazidwa ndi zokolola zakomweko ndi chizindikiro chosasangalatsa.
“Lero kuli alimi ambiri omwe amalima mbatata mosayenera. Kuphatikiza apo, kwa zaka ziwiri tsopano takhala tikugulitsa zinthu kuchokera ku Russia ndi Belarus, ndipo chaka chino, koyambirira kwa chilimwe, tidayamba kuitanitsa mbatata kuchokera ku Netherlands, ndipo tsopano tikupereka kale kuchokera ku Poland. Izi ndichifukwa choti ku Poland kumwa mbatata ndi HoReCa ndi magawo osinthira kwatsika kwambiri chifukwa chokhayokha. Chifukwa chake, kuchuluka kwakukulu kwa mbatata "kumapanikiza" mitengo, yomwe imagwera pamtengo, "akufotokoza a Taras Bashtannik, podzudzula zomwe ananena oimira aphungu ambiri a Nyumba Yamalamulo ku Ukraine kuti boma lithandizira kulima mbatata ku Ukraine sikofunikira.
“Masiku ano, mbatata ku Ukraine zadya mtengo kuwirikiza kawiri poyerekeza ndi ku Poland. Kuphatikiza apo, malinga ndi chidziwitso changa, m'masiku aposachedwa, opanga opanga angapo aku Ukraine ayambanso kukweza mitengo yogulitsa yazogulitsa. Amalungamitsa izi ndikuti mu 2020 adalandira zokolola zochepa kuposa mu 2019, ndipo pankhani yakuchepa kwa katundu pamsika, kukwera kwamitengo ndizomveka. Kuphatikiza apo, mitengo yogulitsa mbatata ku Ukraine ndi 40% yotsika kuposa nthawi yomweyo chaka chatha, chomwe, malinga ndi omwe amalima mbatata, sichilungamo. Ngakhale zili choncho, zenizeni ndizoti sitidzatha kupewa kugulitsa zinthu ngati omwe akupanga zinthu zakomweko azikweza mitengo, "akufotokoza Andriy Yarmak, katswiri wazachuma ku Investment department wa UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
Ndemanga sabata iliyonse pamsika wa mbatata zikuwonetsa kuti mitengo ya mbatata ku Ukraine yakwera kale kuposa ngakhale ku Georgia ndi Moldova. Momwemonso, Moldova wakhala msika waukulu wogulitsa kunja kwa mbatata yaku Ukraine kwazaka zingapo.