Ukraine has exported 15.95 million tons of grain crops since the beginning of the 2022/2023 marketing year (MY, July-June) and through November 18, including 8.44 million tons of corn (52.9% of total supplies), 6.14 million tons of wheat (38.5%) and 1.31 million tons of barley (8.2%).
As reported on the website of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food on Friday, the rate of grain exports since the beginning of this MY is 31.2% lower than the same period last MY (from July 1, 2020 to November 18, 2021, 23.2 million tons were delivered abroad), although back on November 14 lag was minimal for the past few months at 30.6%.
According to the Ministry, from the beginning of 2022/2023 MY and until November 18, 2022, Ukraine exported 6.14 million tons of wheat (2.23 times less than the same period a year earlier), 1.31 million tons of barley (3.72 times less), 11.2 thousand tons of rye (6.8 times less) and 47.6 thousand tons of flour (1.4% less). At the same time, the rate of corn exports exceeded last year’s volume: 8.44 million tons were exported, which is 1.95 times higher than in 2021/2022 MY on the same date.
It is specified that since the beginning of November, Ukraine exported 2.75 million tons of grain crops, including 1.14 million tons of wheat, 1.39 million tons of corn, 199 thousand tons of barley, 5 thousand tons of rye and 9.2 tons of flour.
As follows from the Ministry data, during the last reporting period, November 14-18, 212.5 thousand tons of grain were supplied to the foreign markets on average per day, while during the preceding period of November 7-14 – 118.6 thousand tons per day, November 2-7 – 178 thousand tons per day, October 26-November 2 – 170 thousand tons per day, and October 21-26 – 132 thousand tons per day. Thus, the average daily rate of exports during the reporting period of November 14-18 has increased by 1.8 times compared to the previous period of November 7-14.
As reported, Ukraine exported 48.51 million tons of grains and leguminous crops in 2021/2022 MY, which is 8.4% higher than during 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.
In 2020/2021 MY, the country exported 44.72 million tons of cereals and legumes: 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.
