Smoke rises from the front line near farmlands in the Dnipro region, Ukraine, in July. The months-long war between Russia and Ukraine has disrupted Ukrainian grain exports, with more than 25 million tons of grain waiting to be exported. Photo: VCG

A burnt wheat field in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on July 19. Ukrainian officials said the country expects to harvest at least 50 million tons of grain in 2022, a decrease from the 85 million tons it produced the year before. Photo: VCG

A Russian soldier stands watch atop a military truck amid vast farmland near Melitopol, southern Ukraine, on July 14. Photo: VCG

Local government officials and Ukrainian soldiers inspect a wheat grain warehouse on May 6, near the front line of Kherson oblast in Novovorontsovka, Ukraine. Photo: VCG

A farmer carries a bulletproof vest during the sowing on April 8. Photo: VCG

A fragment of a rocket is embedded on a wheat field in the Kharkiv region on July 19. Photo: VCG

Missiles recovered by farmers in the field some 30 kilometers away from the front line in Zaporizhzhia region on April 8. Photo: VCG

A crater left by rocket blast on a farm in the Dnipro region on July 4. Photo: VCG