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26.09.2013
Ukraine to harvest record-making 60 million tons of grain this year
The grain yield will be record-making in 2013 - about 60 million tons.
Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said about this opening the governments meeting on Thursday, Ukrinform reports.
Only by preliminary estimates, up to 60 million tons of grain will be gathered in Ukraine, which should be the record-making yield over the years of independence. In August, wheat export from Ukraine reached a record-making index for this month - 1.5 million tons, the government head said.
He noted that over two months since the beginning of the marketing year, grain export volumes grew by 28% to almost 4 million tons.
According to Azarov, harvesting of early grain crops has been already completed. We have fully provided for the domestic need in milling wheat. Agricultural producers received the good yield and currently the main task is the yield storage and the quality of fulfillment of foreign economic contracts, he stressed.
At the same time, harvesting of late agricultural crops continues, sowing of winter crops and preparation of the soil to sowing of spring crops. Grain and leguminous crops gathered on 71% of the acreage. Almost 36 million tons were thrashed with average crop capacity of 31.6 centners/ha - this is 17 percent up against last year indexes. Analysts are convinced that the record-making yield will bring Ukraine to the second position in the world by of corn exports, the Prime Minister said.
He noted that Ukraine intends to expand the markets of grain crops in Asia and Africa. In particular, current export potential will be up to 18 million tons and Ukraine, in addition to the CIS and the EU markets, Ukraine will actively export agricultural products to China, South Korea, Bangladesh, India and Japan.
