Pace of grain exports from Ukraine slower than last year

Ukraine's Ministry for Development of Economy, Trade and Agriculture says the pace of exports of Ukrainian grain this year is slower than last year's shipments.

From the beginning of the new marketing year (started on July 1, 2020 and will end on June 30, 2021) to August 3, Ukraine exported 2.52 million tonnes of grain.

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This is 1.43 million tonnes less than on the same date a year earlier, the ministry's agriculture department said.

In particular, wheat exports totaled 1.25 million tonnes (158,000 tonnes down year-on-year), shipments of barley abroad were 838,000 tonnes (120,000 tonnes down year-on-year).

Exports of maize this year are lagging behind last year's indicators most – Ukraine sold 425,000 tonnes of maize abroad, which was 1.16 million tonnes down year-on-year.

In addition, exports of flour from wheat and other types of grain were 19,000 tonnes, which was 8,100 tonnes down the figure recorded as of August 3, 2019.

As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukraine hit new grain export highs in the 2019-2020 marketing year (MY, July 2019 through June 2020), having supplied 57.2 million tonnes of grain and leguminous crops, as well as flour onto foreign markets.