Ukraine from the beginning of 2022/2023 marketing year (July-June) to February 13, exported 29.16 million tons of cereals, including 16.72 million tons of corn (57.3% of total supplies), 10.39 million tons of wheat (35.6%) and 1.94 million tons of barley (6.7%).
As reported on the website of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food on Monday, the rate of grain exports since the beginning of this year is by 28.65% lower than during the same period of the previous year, when 40.81 million tons were shipped abroad. At that, as of February 13, the highest average daily export rate for the current MY was achieved, while the previous lowest lag from the last year’s figure was reached on January 9 – “minus” 29.61%.
According to the Ministry, Ukraine exported 16.72 million tons of corn (-3.7% compared to the same period last year), 10.39 million tons of wheat (1.69 times less), 1.94 million tons of barley (2.84 times less), 13.4 thousand tons of rye (11.8 times less) and 89.5 thousand tons of flour (+38.1%) from the beginning of 2022/2023 MY to February 13 this year.
It is specified that Ukraine exported 2.19 million tons of grain since early February, including 1.4 million tons of corn, 653 thousand tons of wheat, 126 thousand tons of barley, 7,100 tons of flour and 1 thousand tons of rye.
As follows from the Ministry data, during the period of February 3-13, an average of 170.7 thousand tons of cereals per day were supplied to foreign markets, whereas during the preceding period of January 27 – February 3 – 209.4 thousand tons of cereals per day, January 20-27 – 121.1 thousand tons per day, January 9-20 – 140 thousand tons per day, and January 2-9 – 121.7 thousand tons per day. Thus, the average daily rate of exports during the reporting period of 3-13 February decreased by 18.5% compared to the previous period January 27-February 3.
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.
