Kyiv, November 16 (QNA) – The Ukrainian Ministry of Agriculture announced today that the country’s grain exports during the current season reached 15.6 million tons, a decline of 31 percent year-on-year.
The ministry said, in a statement on its website, that these crops, which harvest began since the beginning of last July, were distributed, according to the latest quantities collected to date, between 6 million tons of wheat, a decrease of 56 percent on an annual basis, and 1. 28 million tons of barley, down by 73 percent year-on-year, and 8.25 million tons of soft wheat, double what was recorded a year ago.
The ministry did not refer, in its statement, to the data that might include grain destined for export but not yet left the country.
First Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Ukraine Taras Vysotsky had stated in mid-June that the estimates of his country’s grain crop this year will be in the range of 48.5 million tons, after last year’s crop reached about 86 million tons. (QNA)
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