Ukrainian
Agrarian Policy Minister Oleksiy Pavlenko says #grain_exports in the 2015-2016
marketing year (MY, July 2015 through June 2016) are projected at 37 million
tonnes, whereas the previous forecast was slightly higher than 36 million
tonnes.
"Whether this is good or
bad, but we see that the preliminary figure is not even 36 million tonnes, it's
37 million tonnes. This is a reference figure for making various
projections," the minister said.
Pavlenko also noted that last
year Ukrainian agricultural exports accounted for 38% of foreign exchange
earnings. The surplus of foreign trade in farm produce was estimated at $11.1
billion.
As UNIAN reported earlier,
Ukraine harvested 59.96 million tonnes of grain and leguminous crops in 2015,
which was 6.1% down on 2014, according to the State Statistics Service
(excluding the temporarily occupied territories of Crimea and the Anti-Terrorist
Operation zone).
According to expert
projections, Ukraine may export up to 37.7 million tonnes of grain in the
2015-2016 MY. During the last season, grain exports totaled 34.8 million
tonnes.
Ukraine exported $14.6 billion
worth of farm produce in 2015, exceeding imports by $11.1 billion, which was a
record high level since the country's independence. Last year, Asian
countries accounted for 45% of Ukrainian food exports. The share of exports to Europe was
28.2%, to Africa 13.6% and to the CIS countries 10%. Grain
accounted for 16% of all farm produce exports, fats and oil for 9% and oilseeds for
4%.
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