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28.02.2013
Ukraine exports 17.6 million tons of grain crops - Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry
Since the beginning of 2012-2013 marketing year, national agrarian workers have already supplied almost 17. 6 million tons of grain crops to foreign markets, that is 4.7 million tons up against the same period of the previous marketing year.
Agrarian Policy and Food Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk has said about this, the press service of the Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry reports.
“Since the beginning of 2013, national agrarian workers have already supplied almost 3.3 million tons of grain to the foreign markets. And today corn continues to lead among national export crops - it was sold abroad to the amount of 2.7 million tons.
In total, since the beginning of the current marketing year, Ukraine has already exported over 17.5 million tons of grain crops, which is 4.7 million tons up against the same period of the previous marketing year,” Prysiazhniuk noted.
The Minister informed that since the beginning of 2012/2013 marketing year, agrarian workers have supplied 9 million tons of corn to the foreign markets, 6.1 million tons of wheat and 2 million tons of barley.
In 2012, the largest volume of grain crops was exported by the European Union - 7.7 million tons of grain to the amount of USD 1.9 billion. In addition, last year, Egypt - 5.5 million tons and Saudi Arabia - 1.9 million tons, were among main importers of national grain.
