“A Russian ballistic missile loaded with cluster munitions struck one of our grain facilities… How do you provision for that?”
Australian agribusiness veteran John Rich chairs MHP, Ukraine's largest farming and food processing company. On a visit to Dublin, he told Thomas Hubert about the challenges of running a business when staff are mobilised into the army, export routes are closed and capital restrictions lock it out of money markets. From paying veterans' salaries to raising equity from a Saudi sovereign wealth fund, Rich discusses how a modern listed company trades through "World War Three in Europe" and defends the future integration of the Ukrainian agricultural superpower into the European Union.
