Agricultural producers in Venezuela's western region of Portuguesa race to find enough fertiliser for their crops as Russia's invasion of Ukraine 10,000 kilometres away has limited the supply of the key agricultural supplement throughout the region. Some 80 per cent of the 180,000 metric tons of fertilisers used annually in Venezuela are imported, mostly from Russia but also from Ukraine and Belarus, according to the Fedeagro union of agricultural producers. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES