The trendsetting historians have written entire volumes of pseudoscientific works on the alleged "primitiveness and backwardness of the nomads". However, nomadic cattle breeding was a real "organizational and technological breakthrough" from the point of view of effective use of steppe resources as an agricultural way of life. After all, instead of providing fodder for livestock during unfavourable season for its grazing (winter, summer drought, etc.), the cattle was simply moved to the place where there were good pastures at the moment.

It turns out that not only cattle breeding can be "nomadic", but also farming. This is illustrated by the problem of harvesting in the war-torn territory of Ukraine as a result of Russian aggression. "It is not cattle that are nomadic, but agricultural machinery, and the front line has cut the routes of its "nomadic" migration.

It would seem that Russia was able to seize the most "bread" regions of Ukraine - Kherson and the south of Zaporizhzhya Oblast. Kremlin "strategists" were already anticipating super profits from the looted export of grain from the occupied territories of southern Ukraine. Especially since the price of grain on world markets has risen due to Russian aggression. That is why they allowed local Ukrainian farmers to sow the fields under the occupation in order to accumulate, or simply to take away the harvest for next to nothing. But it was not to be.

Today, there are no harvesters in the vast wheat fields of southern Ukraine. Although in previous years this was the time when the harvesting campaign was in full swing here. But now there is no equipment necessary for it. A year ago it "migrated to the north", and because of the military action in February could not return.

The fact is that in recent years Ukraine has established a system of "nomadic use of agricultural machinery". During the spring, in early summer, combines were brought from all regions of Ukraine to the south, where the harvesting season began. Then all the equipment moved to the north as the crops were ripening. There, in the north of Ukraine, having completed the final harvest of the last fields, this equipment was mainly "wintered" and repaired, and it was replaced by equipment for sowing winter crops to the south.

As a result, at the beginning of the Russian aggression, winter grain fields were already sown in the south of Ukraine. In the spring, even under the occupation, there was no shortage of machinery for sowing. But when the time came to reap the harvest, it turned out that not a single combine harvester from the north, from the unoccupied territory of Ukraine, could "break through" the front line to the south. And the combine harvesters remaining in Kherson and southern Zaporozhye regions are critically insufficient for the harvesting campaign. And they "stayed here for the winter" instead of going north last summer, usually only because they were broken, and the ones that were "on the run" in the spring were looted by the occupants out of habit and stolen to the Russian Federation.

Meanwhile, time is running out. Grain is already beginning to crumble, the rains are bending the ears and in a week or two the combine harvester simply will not pick them up. The harvest in the south of Ukraine (according to some sources, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions account for up to 3% of the global grain market) is simply disappearing before our eyes, while the poorer countries are facing starvation.

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