Agroholding Agrotrade exported about 500 thousand tons of grain in 2022, including 343.8 thousand tons of its own harvest, 147 thousand tons of agricultural products from third parties and 5.4 tons of organic products.
According to the Facebook page of the agrarian group, it exported most of all wheat and corn, while rye, sorghum, soybeans, rape and barley were also shipped abroad.
“Agrotrade noted that last year, due to Russian aggression, it was forced to look for new export routes, shipping grain by rail to Europe bypassing blocked Ukrainian seaports. However, in the second half of 2022, most of the agricultural products were shipped through the ports of Greater Odessa under “grain agreements.”
“Exports continue, although the grain corridor works very slowly. Up to nine ships per day are served. Exports are slow due to insufficient number of inspections. That is, grain exports could be more intensive if steamships could call at the terminals more often. Taking into account all the difficulties that exporters faced this year, we are satisfied with the results of our work,” Agrotrade quotes its director of foreign economic activity Andrei Booth.
Agrotrade Group is a vertically integrated holding of a complete agricultural cycle (production, processing, storage and trade of agricultural products). It cultivates over 70 thousand hectares of land in Chernigov, Sumy, Poltava and Kharkov regions. Profile crops – sunflower, corn, winter wheat, soybeans and rapeseed. It has its own network of elevators with a single storage capacity of 570,000 tonnes.
The Group also produces hybrids of corn and sunflower seeds, barley and winter wheat. A seed plant with an annual capacity of 20,000 tons of seeds was built in 2014 on the basis of the Kolos seed farm (Kharkiv region). In 2018, Agrotrade launched its own brand Agroseeds on the market.
The founder and CEO of Agrotrade is Vsevolod Kozhemyako.
Ukraine from the beginning of 2022/2023 marketing year (July-June) to January 27, 2012 and January 27, 2012 exported 25.99 million tons of cereals, including 14.69 million tons of corn (56.5% of total shipments), 9.4 million tons of wheat (36.2%) and 1.8 million tons of barley (6.9%).
According to the website of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food on Friday, the rate of grain exports since the beginning of the current MY is 30.86% lower than the same period of the previous MY, as 37.6 million tons were delivered abroad from July 1, 2021 to January 27, 2022. At the same time, the previous maximum rate of exports was achieved on January 9, 2023, when the lag from last year’s values was the lowest for the entire MY, 29.61%.
According to the agency, this week corn exports began to lag behind last MY for the first time since the start of the 2022/2023 MY, with 14.69 million tons delivered to foreign markets by January 27, 2023, compared to 14.95 million tons on January 27, 2022. In addition, Ukraine exported 9.4 million tons of wheat (1.78 times less than the same period last year), 1.8 million tons of barley (3.02 times less), 12.5 thousand tons of rye (12.2 times less) and 80.8 tons of flour (+28%) from the beginning of 2022/2023 MY.
It is specified that Ukraine exported 3.24 million tons of cereals, including 2.07 million tons of corn, 990 tons of wheat, 173 tons of barley and 11.8 thousand tons of flour since early January.
As follows from the Ministry data, during the period of January 20-27, 121.1 thousand tons of cereals per day were supplied to the foreign markets, whereas during the preceding period of January 9-20 – 140 thousand tons/day, January 2-9 – 121.7 thousand tons/day, December 21 – January 2 – 196.4 thousand tons/day on average, and December 14-21 – 134.3 thousand tons/day. Thus, the average daily rate of exports during the reporting period January 20-27, decreased by 13.5% compared to the previous period January 9-20.
As reported, Ukraine exported 48.51 million tons of grain and leguminous crops in 2021/2022 MY, which is 8.4% higher than in the previous MY, despite the full-scale invasion of Russia and the difficulties with the export of agricultural products due to the blockade of Ukrainian sea ports. 18.74 million tons of wheat (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%) were supplied to foreign markets.
Ukraine in 2020/2021 MY 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, Ukraine exported 56.72 million tons of grain and leguminous crops.
Dynamics of export of goods in 2021-2022
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Export of Ukraine by countries in Jan-Oct 2022
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Export changes in % to previous period in 2021-2022
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Ukraine since the beginning of 2022/2023 marketing year (July-June) and until January 20, 2012 exported 25.14 million tons of cereals, including 14.22 million tons of corn (56.6% of total shipments), 9.1 million tons of wheat (36.1%) and 1.73 million tons of barley (6.8%).
As reported on the website of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food on Friday, the rate of grain exports since the beginning of the current MY is 30.34% lower than the same period of the previous MY, when from July 1, 2021 to January 20, 2022, 36.08 million tons were delivered abroad. In this case, the previous maximum rate of exports was achieved on January 9, 2023, when the lag from last year’s values was the lowest for the entire MY 29.61%.
According to the Ministry, from the beginning of 2022/2023 MY to January 20 this year, Ukraine exported 9.1 million tons of wheat (1.82 times less compared to the same period last year), 1.73 million tons of barley (3.11 times less) and 12.5 thousand tons of rye (12 times less). At the same time, exports of corn exceeded last year’s volume: 14.22 million tons were exported, which is 3.6% more than it was in 2021/2022 MY on the same date, while 76.5 thousand tons of flour (+23.1%).
It is specified that since the beginning of January, Ukraine exported 2.39 million tons of grain, including 1.59 million tons of corn, 671 thousand tons of wheat, 108 thousand tons of barley and 7.5 thousand tons of flour.
As follows from the Ministry data, during the period of January 9-20, an average of 140 thousand tons of cereals per day were supplied to the foreign markets, whereas during the preceding period of January 2-9, an average of 121.7 thousand tons per day were supplied to the foreign markets, during December 21 – January 2, an average of 196.4 thousand tons per day, during December 14-21 – 134.3 thousand tons per day and during December 2-14 – 148.6 thousand tons per day. Thus, the average daily rate of exports during the reporting period January 9-20 has increased by 15% compared to the previous period January 2-9.
As reported, Ukraine in 2021/2022 MY exported 48.51 million tons of grain and leguminous crops, which is 8.4% higher than in the previous MY, despite the full-scale invasion of Russia and the difficulties with the export of agricultural products due to the blockade of Ukrainian seaports. 18.74 million tons of wheat (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%) were supplied to foreign markets.
Ukraine in 2020/2021 MY 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, Ukraine exported 56.72 million tons of grain and leguminous crops.
