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Ukraine exports 3.4 mln tonnes of grain since start of 2022/23 – ministry
KYIV. Aug 26 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukraine has exported 3.41 million tonnes of grain, including 2.18 million tonnes of corn (64% of all grain exports), 937,000 tonnes of wheat (27.5%), and 274,000 tonnes of barley (8%), since the beginning of the 2022-2023 marketing year (July 2022-June 2023).
The pace of grain exports since the start of the current marketing year was 52.4% lower than in the same period last year (Ukraine exported 7 million tonnes of grain on July 1 August 26, 2021), Ukrainian media said on Friday, citing the website of Ukraine’s Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food.
Since the start of the 2022/23 marketing year, Ukraine has exported 937,000 tonnes of wheat (72.2% less year-on-year), 247,000 tonnes of barley (88.5% less), and 10,100 tonnes of flour (half of what was exported as of August 26, 2021).
However, corn exports since the beginning of the 2022/23 marketing year stood at 2.18 million tonnes, a 1.8-fold increase year-on-year. In addition, Ukraine began exporting rye this week for the first time since the start of the 2022-2023 marketing year, shipping 400,000 tonnes of this crop to foreign customers.
Between August 19 and August 25, Ukraine exported 430,000 tonnes of grain (61,400 tonnes daily). Hence, the average daily rate of grain exports declined by 36.1% on August 19 through August 26 compared to August 11 through August 19.
In total, Ukraine exported 240,000 tonnes of corn, 154,000 tonnes of wheat, 17,000 tonnes of barley, and 2,700 tonnes of flour between August 19 and August 26.
As reported, Ukraine exported 48.51 million tonnes of grain and leguminous crops in the 2021-2022 marketing year, which is 8.4% more than in the previous marketing year. In particular, it exported 18.74 million tonnes of wheat (12.6% more year-on-year), 23.54 million tonnes of corn (1.9% more), 5.75 million tonnes of barley (35.9% more), and 70,900 tonnes of flour (44.1% less).
