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The forecast for grain exports is increased to 42 million tonnes.
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine forecasts that the production of grain and leguminous crops in 2018 will be at 63.1 million tonnes, according to preliminary data.
"We are adjusting our previous estimate upwards, expecting the yield at 63.1 million tonnes," First Deputy Minister Maxim Martyniuk wrote on Facebook.
"Growth will be due to a group of late cereals. The weather conditions were far from optimal, but the losses were fragmentary, and as a result, we have a decent food wheat/forage ratio at 60/40," he wrote.
In addition, according to Martyniuk, the forecast for grain exports has also been increased to 42 million tonnes.
"This is good news as such, while the world situation (poor crops in supplying countries and rising prices) raises its status to 'excellent'," the first deputy minister noted.
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Martyniuk added that while spring field works began late, now, on the contrary, the sowing campaign began almost a week earlier. As of September 10, winter grain have been sown on an area of 237,000 hectares, which is 3% of the forecast.
As UNIAN reported earlier, according to the State Statistics Service, the harvest of grain and leguminous crops in Ukraine in 2017 decreased by 7.3% compared to 2016, amounting to 61.3 million tonnes.
According to preliminary data, in 2017-2018 MY agrarians exported 39.4 million tonnes of cereals.