Ukraine since early 2017/18 agricultural year (July-June) has exported almost 27.5 million tonnes of grain crops, which is 7.7% less than a year ago (29.8 million tonnes). According to the biosecurity and seeds supervision department of the State Service for Food Safety and Consumers’ Rights Protection, 13.2 million tonnes of wheat was exported (including 7.3 million tonnes of bread wheat), as well as almost 4 million tonnes of barley and 9.7 million tonnes of corn.
The authority recalled that a year ago 13.6 million tonnes of wheat (8.4 million tonnes of bread wheat), 4.7 million tonnes of barley and 11 million tonnes of corn was exported.
Since early 2017/18 agri-year (September-August) over 4.1 million tonnes of oilseeds were exported, including over 2 million tonnes of rapeseeds and 2.1 million tonnes of soybeans. A year a go, exports of oilseeds totaled over 3 million tonnes, including over 940,000 tonnes of rapeseeds and 2.07 million tonnes of soybeans
