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Ukraine exported 8.58 million tons of grain crops

2 October , 2022  

From the beginning of the 2022/2023 marketing year (MY, began on July 1-2022) and until September 30, Ukraine exported 8.58 million tons of grain crops, of which 4.78 million tons of corn (55.7% of total supplies), 3, 0 million tons of wheat (35%) and 762 thousand tons of barley (8%).

As reported on the website of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food on Friday, since the beginning of the current marketing year, the rate of grain exports is 40.2% lower than the same period of the last marketing year (14.36 million tons were exported from July 1 to September 30, 2021).

According to the agency, from the beginning of 2022/2023 MY and until September 30, 2022, Ukraine exported 3 million tons of wheat (2.97 times less compared to the same date in 2021/2022 MY), 762 thousand tons of barley (4.96 times less), 3.4 thousand tons of rye (12.5 times less) and 23.9 thousand tons of flour (34.6% less). At the same time, the pace of corn exports exceeded last year’s volumes – 4.78 million tons were exported, which is 3.34 times higher than in 2021/2022 MY.

It is specified that in general, since the beginning of September, 4.28 million grains and leguminous crops have been exported, including 1.75 million tons of wheat, 2.08 million tons of corn, 432 thousand tons of barley, 11.8 thousand tons of flour and 3 .4 thousand tons of rye. In addition, the ministry announced the volume of exports for the last reporting period on September 26-30, during which 1.07 million tons of grain were sent abroad, including 398 thousand tons of wheat, 543 thousand tons of corn, 127 thousand tons of barley, 1.9 thousand tons of flour and 1.3 thousand tons of rye.

Thus, according to the data of the ministry, for four days on September 26-30, the record average daily volumes of grain since the beginning of the war were delivered to foreign markets – 267.5 thousand tons / day, while for the reporting period of September 21-26 – 126 thousand tons daily , for September 9-21 – an average of 132.5 thousand tons daily, August 31-September 9 – 147.8 thousand tons daily, and August 26-31 – 110 thousand tons / day. Thus, the average daily export rates over the past 4 days have jumped 2.12 times compared to the previous period on September 21-26 due to the intensification of transportation of agricultural products through the seaports of Ukraine.

As reported, in the 2021/2022 marketing year, Ukraine exported 48.51 million tons of grains and legumes, which is 8.4% higher than the previous marketing year, despite the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation and difficulties with the export of agricultural products due to the blockade of Ukrainian seaports. 18.74 million tons of wheat were delivered to foreign markets (12.6% more than in 2020/2021MY), 23.54 million tons of corn (+1.9%), 5.75 million tons of barley (+35.9%) , 70.9 thousand tons of flour (-44.1%).

In 2020/2021 MY, the country exported 44.72 million tons of grain and leguminous crops: 16.64 million tons of wheat, 23.08 million tons of corn, 4.23 million tons of barley, 126.9 thousand tons of flour and 18.4 thousand . tons of rye.

In 2019/2020 MY, Ukraine exported 56.72 million tons of grain and leguminous crops.

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