Dutch dairy farmer flees Ukraine to be a voice in the west

08-03-2022 | |
Cows are kept indoors all year round and are bedded on separated manure. Photo: Chris McCullough
Cows are kept indoors all year round and are bedded on separated manure. Photo: Chris McCullough
It’s a day Dutchman Kees Huizinga, a large dairy farmer in Ukraine, never envisaged would happen, but when Putin’s Russian army started a war with the European nation, the entire world felt the aftershock. For the past 20 years, Kees and his 2 business partners have run their large 15,000 hectare farm ‘TOV Kischenzi’ in the centre of Ukraine in peace. Agriculture in Ukraine, known as the breadbasket of Europe, has been performing very well over the past number of years with excellent


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