Cash-strapped Russian farmers do not even have enough feed to keep their current herds. The seeder consists of 12 independent parallel units attached to a single frame. The frame is then hooked to a tractor. With the ploughshare and sowing vacuum unit replaced, the seeder can also be used for sowing beetroots, peas, soybean, buckwheat and other crops. Several Russian regions have already inquired about purchasing the seeder, but contracts have, so far, been hampered by a lack of funds with potential customers.
Food prices are one of the chief factors driving Polish inflation.
Members of several parliamentary commissions have complained about the austerity measures and cuts in both social spending and subsidies to ailing industries and farms. In addition, the Parliament ordered the government to buy 10 million tons of grain in 1995 from budget allocations and instructed the National Bank of Ukraine to issue 25 trillion karbovanets in new credit in February and 5 million karbovanets of it as advance payments for grain to be bought under government contracts. The economists were not objecting to the government's support of farming as much as to policies they considered harmful to Ukraine.