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.
