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KYIV, Ukraine, July 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ukraine will be able to export 20-21 million tons of grain this marketing year, said the Ukrainian Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Mykola Prysyazhnyuk. This amount, he said, was based on 10 million tons of carry-over stock of grain from last year and this year's forecasted crop of 45 - 46 million tons. So far, Ukraine harvested 12.1 million tons of wheat, 5.5 million tons of barley, and 336 thousand tons of rye, reported...

KYIV, Ukraine, July 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ukraine exported 117,900 tons of sugar over September 2011 - June 2012. This is the largest export amount for the country in the last ten years, informs Ukrainian Agribusiness Club (UAC). "Ukraine is capable of producing sugar that would be competitive to the global market. The country has favorable climate for growing sugar beet and leading companies which invest in increasing sugar and sugar beet production," said Taras Vysotskyi,...

KYIV, Ukraine, April 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ukraine exported 17.3 million tons of grain since the beginning of the current marketing year (starting July 2011). This amount is 88.7 percent larger than the respective export volume reached over the same period in the previous marketing year (2010-2011), reports Interfax. Corn export demonstrated the fastest growth rate - it increased more than threefold. Grain supply in the country constituted 63 million tons in the...

KYIV, Ukraine, January 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Exports of Ukrainian grain amounted to 9.65 million tons since the beginning of the marketing year (starting July 1, 2011). The outflow rose 42 percent compared to 6.79 million tons as of January 4 last year, reported the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. In 2011, Ukraine cropped the record amount of grain in twenty years since declaring independence. The unprecedented harvest - over 55 million tons of grain...

KYIV, Ukraine, December 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Mykola Prysyazhnyuk stated that Ukraine had improved its grain exporting status. The country upgraded its position on the global grain market due to the improved grain harvest and reduction of limitations on export millage contributing to the remarkable upsurge in Ukrainian grain export. In 2011 Ukraine cropped the record amount of grain in twenty years since declaring...