Since the beginning of the 2022/2023 marketing year (MY, July-June), Ukraine has exported 5.29 million tons of grain crops, including 3.17 million tons of corn (60% of total supplies), 1.65 million tons of wheat (31%) and 447 thousand tons of barley (8%).
As reported on the website of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food on Friday, since the beginning of the current marketing year, the rate of grain exports has been 1.94 times lower than the same period last year (10.29 million tons were exported from July 1 to September 9, 2021).
At the same time, according to the agency, from August 31 to September 9, 1.33 million tons of grain crops were delivered to foreign markets (147.8 thousand tons daily), while for the previous period, August 26-31 – 550 thousand tons grain crops (110 thousand tons daily), on August 19-26 – 430 thousand tons of grain crops (61.4 thousand tons daily), and on August 11-19 – 770 thousand tons (96.2 thousand tons daily ). Thus, the average daily export rates over the past nine days increased by a third compared to the previous period and reached the maximum value since the beginning of the MY.
In general, from the beginning of 2022/2023 MY and until September 9, 2022, Ukraine exported 1.65 million tons of wheat (3.6 times less compared to the same date in 2021/2022 MY), 447 thousand tons of barley (6.7 times less), 0.8 thousand tons of rye (18 times less) and 15.6 thousand tons of flour (1.7 times less). However, the pace of corn exports exceeded last year’s volumes – 3.17 million tons were exported, which is 2.37 times higher than in 2021/2022 MY.
In total, for the period August 31-September 9, 680 thousand tons of corn, 510 thousand tons of wheat, 137 thousand tons of barley, 0.3 thousand tons of rye and 3.7 thousand tons of flour were delivered to foreign markets.
As reported, in MY 2021/2022, Ukraine exported 48.51 million tons of grains and legumes, which is 8.4% higher than in the previous marketing year, despite the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation and difficulties with the export of agricultural products due to the blockade of Ukrainian seaports. 18.74 million tons of wheat were delivered to foreign markets (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%).
In 2020/2021 MY, the country 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 MY, Ukraine exported 56.72 million tons of grain and leguminous crops.
