PEREYASLAV-KHMELNYTSKY (Kyiv region). Aug 25 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry of Ukraine has said that Ukrainian grain exports have totaled 4 million tonnes since the early 2015/16 agricultural year (July-June), Minister Oleksiy Pavlenko has said.
“Since July, grain exports totaled around 4 million tonnes,” Pavlenko said at a meeting with grain traders with the participation of Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk in Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky on Friday.
Pavlenko said that Ukraine has finished harvesting early grain crops.
The minister said that despite the decline in grain prices, Ukraine could export 36 million tonnes of grain this season.
“At present, exports of agricultural products to the Customs Union countries is less than to African countries. We export products worth $2.6 billion to Africa and $2 billion to the Customs Union countries. Now $5 billion is total earnings from exports [of agricultural products] to the EU,” Pavlenko said.
As reported, in the 2014/15 agri-year Ukraine exported 34.8 million tonnes of grain crops.
