The traditionally grown plants are: potato, maize, sunflower and grain crop.

During the mid-1980s, the grain crop usually hit record highs of about 20 million tons, compared to 13 million tons in 1983.

Modern-day combines can be adjusted to work with any grain crop, and many unusual seed crops.

In 2006 grain crop failures led to steadily increasing bread lines and reinstatement of a ration system in most regions.

He reported the failure of the year's grain crop, and noted this would certainly cause an increase in food prices, which were already high.