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Maksym Martynyuk, the country's First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, said that Ukraine is projected to supply abroad 41 million tonnes of cereals during the 2017-2018 marketing year, which runs between July 1, 2017, and June 30, 2018, compared with 43.8 million tonnes in the previous marketing year, Xinhua reported.

The main factor behind the decline is the logistic issues, especially lack of rail grain carriers, Martynyuk said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine news agency.

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Ukraine is ranked among the world's largest grain exporters, supplying about 8 percent of grain to the global market.

In 2016, China was Ukraine's largest corn importer, accounting for about 16 percent of the total maize exports, and the third-largest barley importer with exports share of 6.2 percent.