Demining large swaths of the agricultural land of the Ukraine by hand

Bad news! The many horrors of war!

The Ukraine is the breadbasket of the world!

How many individuals (or children) will become maimed victims by unexploded mines and ordinance? This might go on for decades after the war. 

"There were so many mines on Larisa Sysenko’s small farm in Kamyanka in eastern Ukraine after the Russians were pushed out that she and her husband Viktor started demining it themselves – with rakes.

Further along the front line at Korobchyne near Kharkiv, Mykola Pereverzev began clearing the fields with his farm machinery.

“My tractor was blown up three times. We had to get a new one. It was completely unrepairable. But we ended up clearing 200 hectares of minefields in two months,” he said. ..."

‘Everyone Demines by Themselves’ – Clearing Mined Land, from Drones to Rakes "“Ukraine has 42 million hectares of agricultural land,” says one farmer. “On paper, we can cultivate 32 million. But usable, uncontaminated land not occupied by Russia – only 24 million.”"