Hormuz shipping disruption is starting to hit harvests, UN agency says

BANGKOK: The impact of ‌the disruption to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is already becoming visible in agricultural harvests, threatening to lower farm yields and ​push up food prices, the head of a United Nations rural development agency said on Thursday. “The pass-through from the initial locking down of the Strait of Hormuz ... is now starting to be seen,” International Fund for Agricultural Development President Alvaro Lario told Reuters. Hormuz-related disruptions to fertilizer s