As of March 26, Ukraine exported 32.214 mln tonnes of grains and pulses since the beginning of 2024-2025 marketing year, including 3.032 mln tonnes shipped since the beginning of the current month, the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food reported, citing the data of the State Customs Service.
According to the report, as of March 27 last year, the total shipments amounted to 34.199 mln tons, including 4.529 mln tons in March.
At the same time, since the beginning of the current season, Ukraine has exported 12.912 mln tonnes of wheat (13.504 mln tonnes in 2023/24 MY), 2.196 mln tonnes of barley (1.957 mln tonnes), 10.8 thsd tonnes of rye (1 thsd tonnes), and 16.621 mln tonnes of corn (18.447 mln tonnes).
The total export of Ukrainian flour since the beginning of the season as of March 26 is estimated at 52.8 thsd tonnes (in 2023/24 MY – 78.1 thsd tonnes), including 48.9 thsd tonnes of wheat (74 thsd tonnes).
In 2030, Ukrainian biomethane producers will be able to supply up to 1 billion cubic meters of this fuel to the EU, says Maciej Zaniewicz, Green Deal Ukraine project expert, senior analyst at Forum Energii (Poland), who is a co-author of the study “Potential for Cooperation between Ukraine and the EU in the Field of Biomethane” by Green Deal Ukraine and the Ukrainian Climate Office.
“In our opinion, as well as in the opinion of Ukrainian analysts, the real volumes of biomethane production in Ukraine can be plus or minus 0.5% of EU demand. We are talking about about 1 billion cubic meters of biomethane in 2030,” Zanevych said in an interview with theInterfax-Ukraine energy project Energoreforma.
According to him, the most interesting thing in the study on the potential for cooperation in this area was that Ukrainian biomethane has already found buyers at market prices in the EU.
“At the same time, demand in the EU is so high that Ukrainian imports will not hinder the development of the industry within the EU,” the expert believes.
At the same time, he notes that Ukrainian biomethane “will not become some kind of export hit for Ukraine and a panacea for the EU.”
“What I mean is that it will not fully replace natural gas imports to the EU. Yes, it is an important component for diversifying gas supplies, but it will not completely replace imports,” Zanevych explained.
He also drew attention to the risk that pro-Russian circles will try to sow disinformation, “as it was with the trucks, as it was with the farmers.” “That allegedly Ukrainian biomethane producers will displace European producers. That’s why we wanted to make a reliable analysis based on objective data and show how it can actually be,” the expert said.
As reported, the first batch of Ukrainian biomethane of 67 thousand cubic meters was exported on February 7, 2025 by Vitagro, an energy holding whose plant with a capacity of 3 million cubic meters of biomethane per year operates in Khmelnytsky region. The exports were made to Germany.
On February 11, MHP’s biomethane plant Oril-Leader (Dnipropetrovs’k region) exported 27.4 thousand cubic meters of biomethane and became the second Ukrainian company to do so. MHP exported biomethane via gas pipelines across the Ukrainian-Polish border to Germany. The buyer was Vitol. The capacity of Oril-Leader is 11 million cubic meters per year.
The Gals Agro agricultural holding has built a biomethane plant with a capacity of 3 million cubic meters in Chernihiv region. The company has already been connected to the grid and is preparing to export its products.
At the Ukrainian Investment Congress in Kyiv in early March, Georgii Geletukha, Chairman of the Board of the Bioenergy Association of Ukraine (BAU), said that Ukraine could soon become the main supplier of biomethane to the European Union, with the share of Ukrainian products in the European market reaching 20% in the future.
Geletukha emphasized that Europe aims to consume approximately 35 billion cubic meters of biomethane in 2030, while European production is currently estimated at 3 billion cubic meters. Given the current market trends, the EU will be able to increase its own production to 20 billion cubic meters of biomethane within five years.
The expert explained such a delay in the development of the biomethane market in Europe by the lack of large free areas of agricultural land and, accordingly, the inability to produce the necessary amount of raw materials for processing.
He drew attention to Europe’s new plans for 2030, which include the production and consumption of 100 billion cubic meters of biomethane by 2050. However, it will not reach this figure because of the lack of raw materials, the expert believes.
According to his assumption, if Ukraine were to produce up to 15 billion cubic meters of biomethane now, the EU would “buy everything with a bang.”
According to him, in Ukraine, the range of biomethane producers and potential exporters will expand in 2025. They will be joined by another MHP company, Teofipol Energy Company, and Józefów-Mykolaiv Biogas Company. In total, Ukrainian facilities will produce 111 million cubic meters of biomethane per year.
At a cost of EUR900 per 1 thousand cubic meters of biomethane produced from crop waste or from animal waste, including manure or litter, at EUR1100-1200 per 1 thousand cubic meters, Ukraine will be able to receive up to EUR100 billion annually from exporting these products to the EU, Geletukha predicts.
The study on the prospects of cooperation between Ukraine and the EU in the field of biomethane is available at https://greendealukraina.org/uk/products/analytical-reports/the-potential-of-ukraine-eu-biomethane-cooperation
As of March 24, Ukraine exported 31.736 mln tonnes of grains and pulses since the beginning of 2024/2025 marketing year (MY, July 2024 – June 2025), of which 2.553 mln tonnes were shipped this month, the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food reported, citing the data of the State Customs Service.
According to the report, as of March 27 last year, the total shipments amounted to 34.199 mln tons, including 4.529 mln tons in March.
At the same time, in terms of crops, since the beginning of the current season, as of March 24, 2025, wheat was exported – 12.798 mln tonnes (815 thsd tonnes in March), barley – 2.193 mln tonnes (49 thsd tonnes), rye – 10.8 thsd tonnes (0), corn – 16.26 mln tonnes (1.68 mln tonnes).
Total exports of Ukrainian flour in the period under review are estimated at 52.2 thsd tonnes (3.7 thsd tonnes in March), including 48.3 thsd tonnes of wheat (3.6 thsd tonnes).
In January-February this year, Ukraine’s metallurgical enterprises reduced their revenues from ferrous metal exports by 19.8% year-on-year to $419.199 million.
According to statistics released by the State Customs Service (SCS) on Tuesday, ferrous metals accounted for 6.67% of total export revenues during this period, compared to 7.67% in January-February 2014.
In February, export revenues amounted to $200.430 million.
At the same time, Ukraine increased imports of similar products by 3% to $228.165 million in January-February 2025. In February, products worth $113.656 million were imported.
In addition, in January-February 2025, Ukraine reduced exports of metal products by 5% to $144.730 million. In February, they were exported for $66.058 million.
Imports of metal products decreased by 4.7% to $137.982 million over the same period. In February, these products were imported for $61.614 million.
As reported earlier, in 2024, Ukrainian steelmakers increased revenues from ferrous metal exports by 16.9% year-on-year to $3 billion 96.343 million. At the same time, Ukraine increased imports of similar products by 13.1% to $1 billion 478.814 million last year. In December, products worth $108.227 million were imported.
In 2023, Ukraine reduced revenues from exports of ferrous metals by 41.6% compared to 2022, to $2 billion 647.72 million, with ferrous metals accounting for 7.3% of total revenues from exports of goods in this period, compared to 10.3% in 2022. At the same time, in 2023, Ukraine increased imports of similar products by 37% to $1 billion 307.05 million.
In addition, in 2023, Ukraine decreased exports of metal products by 16.6% year-on-year to $877.92 million, while imports of metal products increased by 40.3% to $902.57 million.
In January-February of this year, Ukrainian mining companies reduced exports of iron ore in physical terms by 1.2% compared to the same period last year, to 5 million 595.706 thousand tons.
According to the statistics released by the State Customs Service on Tuesday, foreign exchange earnings from iron ore exports decreased by 18.7% to $449.388 million during this period.
Exports of iron ore were carried out mainly to China (46.50% of supplies in monetary terms), Poland (17.35%) and Slovakia (14.31%).
In January-February 2025, Ukraine imported iron ore worth $1 thousand in the amount of 5 tons from Italy.
As reported, in 2024, Ukraine increased its exports of iron ore by 89.8% compared to 2023 – up to 33 million 699.722 thousand tons, while foreign exchange earnings increased by 58.7% to UAH 2 billion 803.223 million.
In 2024, Ukraine imported iron ore for $414 thousand in a total volume of 2,042 thousand tons, while in 2023, 250 tons of this raw material were imported for $135 thousand.
In 2023, Ukraine decreased exports of iron ore in physical terms by 26% compared to 2022 – to 17 million 753.165 thousand tons, foreign exchange earnings from iron ore exports amounted to $1 billion 766.906 million (down 39.3%). In 2023, Ukraine imported iron ore worth $135 thousand in a total volume of 250 tons.
In January-February of this year, Ukrainian mining companies reduced exports of iron ore in physical terms by 1.2% compared to the same period last year, to 5 million 595.706 thousand tons.
According to the statistics released by the State Customs Service on Tuesday, foreign exchange earnings from iron ore exports decreased by 18.7% to $449.388 million during this period.
Exports of iron ore were carried out mainly to China (46.50% of supplies in monetary terms), Poland (17.35%) and Slovakia (14.31%).
In January-February 2025, Ukraine imported iron ore worth $1 thousand in the amount of 5 tons from Italy.
As reported, in 2024, Ukraine increased its exports of iron ore by 89.8% compared to 2023 – up to 33 million 699.722 thousand tons, while foreign exchange earnings increased by 58.7% to UAH 2 billion 803.223 million.
In 2024, Ukraine imported iron ore for $414 thousand in a total volume of 2,042 thousand tons, while in 2023, 250 tons of this raw material were imported for $135 thousand.
In 2023, Ukraine decreased exports of iron ore in physical terms by 26% compared to 2022 – to 17 million 753.165 thousand tons, foreign exchange earnings from iron ore exports amounted to $1 billion 766.906 million
(down 39.3%). In 2023, Ukraine imported iron ore worth $135 thousand in a total volume of 250 tons.
