Lebanon's livestock farmers face challenges due to soaring fodder prices

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Lebanon's livestock farmers face challenges due to soaring fodder prices

STORY: Lebanon's livestock farmers face challenges due to soaring fodder prices DATELINE: March 29, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:43 LOCATION: Beirut CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of cows at Youssef Saad's farm 2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): YOUSSEF SAAD, Livestock farmer STORYLINE: Lebanon's livestock farmers are facing huge challenges due to the soaring fodder prices caused by the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The conflict in Ukraine, a major global supplier of animal feed, has forced livestock farmers in Lebanon to pay higher prices for animal feed. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): YOUSSEF SAAD, Livestock farmer "The prices of fodder have increased by 40 to 50 percent. In the past, each 2.5 buckets of milk could buy a bag of fodder. Now, we need every day 5 buckets of milk to buy one bag of fodder. So the price of one kilogram of fodder is equal to the price of one kilogram of milk. We are not able to continue. We do not know what to do." Lebanon has been suffering from an unprecedented financial crisis amid a shortage of U.S. d

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