KYIV. July 16 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Grain stocks held at agricultural enterprises in Ukraine, apart from small ones, and at enterprises that store and process grain, amounted to 7.9 million tonnes as of July 1, 2015, which is 12.9% up year-over-year, Ukraine’s State Statistics Service has reported.
Wheat stocks amounted to 3.2 million tonnes, barley stocks stood at 1.5 billion tonnes, corn at 2.9 million tonnes tonnes, and rye at 100,000 tonnes.
Grain reserves at just agricultural enterprises weighed in at 4.5 million tonnes as of July 1, which was 17.7% more than a year earlier, including 1.6 million tonnes of wheat, 800,000 tonnes of barley, and 1.8 million tonnes of corn.
The statistics service’s figures indicate that sunflower seed reserves amounted to 1 million tonnes as of the said date, which was 33.5% down year-over-year, including 500,000 tonnes stored at agricultural enterprises (19.9% up year-over-year).
Data does not include the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea and Sevastopol and a part of the antiterrorist operation zone.
