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At the same time, imports of agricultural products in January-May amounted to $2.5 billion.
In January-May this year, exports of Ukrainian agriproducts increased by 21.4% year-on-year, amounting to US$8.97 billion, according to Olha Trofimtseva, Acting Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food.
"In the first five months of 2019, exports increased by $1.58 billion (or 21.4%) year-on-year, amounting to $8.97 billion," Trofimtseva wrote on Facebook.
The official noted that exports of agricultural products in the reporting period took up a 42.9% share in Ukraine's general export structure.
Key importers of Ukrainian agricultural products were China, where Ukraine delivered products worth a total of $794.9 million, India ($740.9 million), Egypt ($737.4 million), Turkey ($683.7 million), and the Netherlands ($640.8 million). In addition, major deliveries were recorded to Spain, Italy, Poland, Belarus, and Germany, Trofimtseva noted.
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Trofimtseva noted that major exports during the reporting period were: corn worth $3 billion; sunflower, safflower and cottonseed oil worth $1.9 billion; wheat and wheat-rye mix worth $ 974 million; casing and other solid wastes from extraction of vegetable fats and oils worth $479.2 million; soybeans worth $431.9 million; poultry meat and offal worth $255.9 million; heap and other waste of soybean oil worth $141.2 million; soybean oil worth $111 million; cigars, cigarillos and cigarettes with tobacco or substitute worth $107.7 million; and barley worth $77.9 million.
The acting minister added that imports of agricultural products over the five months of 2019 increased by 8.5% against the previous year, amounting to $2.5 billion.
As UNIAN reported earlier, in 2018 Ukraine’s foreign trade in agricultural products increased by $1.7 billion, to $24.3 billion. Exports of Ukrainian agricultural products reached a record $18.8 billion, while imports stood at $5.5 billion.