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> Ukraine and Russia supply a third of the world’s wheat

That does not appear to be true, 2019 statistics [0] put it at 13%.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_wheat_production...

Thank you for this. The author may have simply made a mistake. That's quite possible. It's also possible that he was referring to wheat beyond the producer's own need -- exports -- and if this is the case, it appears that Russia and Ukraine produce somewhere in the neighborhood of 30% of the combined total of the top ten producers -- see here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wheat_exp...

So, not quite a third, but not much of an exaggeration.

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