Experts warn ‘damage already done’ to food production from Hormuz closure

The UN has warned that the road back to normal food production will be long and arduous even if the Strait of Hormuz is reopened immediately due to the impact on fertiliser supplies that pass through the channel. “If the Strait of Hormuz reopened immediately … the impact would be significantly positive - but incomplete and uneven,” Maximo Torero, the chief economist of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), told AFP.