Farmers use a threshing machine to refine wheat during harvesting in a field in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province on March 26, 2021. Last year, Ukraine sold some
400,000 tons of wheat to Pakistan as the country suffered from a poor harvest.
Pakistan, the fifth most populous country in the world with more than 200 million people, has never been a major trade partner for Ukraine.
But over the past two years, Ukrainian grain exports to the Asian country have skyrocketed from $468,000 in 2018 to $258 million last year, accounting for nearly 60% of all bilateral trade.