In particular, wheat exports totaled 11.5 million tonnes, barley shipments were 4.3 million tonnes, and those of maize were 7.1 million tonnes.
Read alsoWinter crops in Ukraine under reliable frost protectionOver the period under review, farmers shipped 169,700 tonnes of flour abroad. In particular, they sold 169,100 tonnes of wheat flour and 600 tonnes of other types of the product.
As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukraine exported a record high amount of grain in the 2015-2016 MY (July 2015 – June 2016), having sold 39.4 million tonnes of grain abroad. The previous record was registered in the 2014-2015 MY, when grain exports stood at 34.8 million tonnes.
The Agrarian Policy Ministry forecasts that grain exports may hit 41.6 million tonnes in the current MY.
