Business news from Ukraine

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.