Ukraine’s largest grain market operator is asking USAID to expand its railroad fleet. The Nibulon company wants to expand its railcar fleet by 250 units and has asked USAID to finance this initiative. Mykhailo Rizak, the grain trader’s top manager, recalled that in 2023, USAID helped N... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #nibulon #UkrainianRailways #USAID
Ukraine’s allies recognize the importance of the Ukrainian maritime corridor and seek investment in its export capacity. Penny Pritzker, the US Special Representative for Ukraine’s Economic Recovery, believes that US support for the Ukrainian economy is no less critical for defeating the Russian Federation than military... #agroexportukraine #BlackSeaCorridor #PennyPritzker #ВідвантаженнятоварівУкраїна
The EC will present trade measures for Ukraine’s agricultural products and extend the economic visa-free program. The European Commission will propose trade measures against Ukraine this week after Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Hungary, in a joint letter, demanded import duties on Ukrainian grain, EC t... #agroexportukraine #DenysShmyhal #GrainEmbargo #OlofGill
Ukraine remains one of the top three suppliers of agricultural products to the EU. According to the volume of agricultural imports to the EU in the period from January to October 2023, Ukraine remains in third place with an indicator of €12.843B (+ €371M, or +3% compared to the same... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #ВідвантаженнятоварівУкраїна
Polish carriers have stopped their blockade of the border, and the EC disagrees with Poland’s demand to restore quotas for Ukrainian products. Polish carriers have reached an agreement with the government on some of their demands and will suspend their protest at the border. The Ukraine State Border Guard confirmed that Polish carriers have ... #agroexportukraine #BorderBlockade #CzesławSiekierski #PolishCarriers #TradeVisaFree
Ukrainian agricultural exports have encountered another obstacle, created by the Houthis. The active phase of the allies’ military operation against the Houthi rebels in Yemen has led to a change in trade – in particular, Ukrainian agrarian export sea routes. After January 11, ... #agroexportukraine #RedSea #RedSeaCrisis #SuezCanal #Ukrainiangrain
European farmers demand restrictions on Ukrainian imports and the redirection of grain to other countries. Six European agricultural organizations call on the EU to limit the import of Ukrainian products so as not to endanger the survival of European producers. In May 2022, the EU suspended customs duties ... #agroexportukraine #FarmersUkraine #PathsOfSolidarity #Ukrainiangrain
Romania will receive €126M in grant funds to promote Ukrainian exports. Romania will receive €126M from the EU for investment in ports that have faced increased flows of goods since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This measure should facilitate Ukraine&#... #agroexportukraine #PathsOfSolidarity #RomaniaSeaPorts #ВідвантаженнятоварівУкраїна
Ukraine received almost $400M from the export of sugar. In 2023, sugar exports reached 506,000 tons, which allowed Ukrainian producers to earn $390M. For comparison, in 2022 181,000 tons of sugar valued at $139M were delivered to foreign markets.According ... #agroexportukraine #AgroholdingAstarta #SugarExport #SugarProductionUkraine
Ukraine has fulfilled all demands to unblock the border with Poland. As Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Serhiy Derkach stated: “Ukraine has implemented the plan we agreed to with Poland. However, the protesters have a few more demands for the Polish government.... #agroexportukraine #BorderBlockade #SerhiiDerkach #transportvisafree #ВідвантаженнятоварівУкраїна
The Polish government has signed an agreement with farmers to open the border with Ukraine in return for restrictions on importing Ukrainian agricultural products to the EU. Polish Minister of Agriculture Czesław Siekierski and representatives from the “Deceived Village” movement signed an agreement to unblock the Medyka-Shehyni crossing point. The Polish gove... #agroexportukraine #BorderBlockade #CzesławSiekierski #JanuszWojciechowski #PolishFarmers
Polish farmers want to scale up protests at the border, and the Polish government is trying to prevent a blockade. Polish farmers will resume the blockade of the Shegini-Medyka border crossing if they do not receive written confirmation that their demands will be met, protest organizer Roman Kondrow said. Farmers ... #agroexportukraine #BorderBlockade #MichalKolodziejczak #PolishFarmers
Poland demands new rules for the transit of Ukrainian agricultural products to lift the embargo. The ban on importing Ukrainian grain to Poland will remain in place until new regulations are developed at the EU level, Polish Minister of Agriculture Czesław Siekierski said. He said that a good sol... #agroexportukraine #BorderBlockade #CzesławSiekierski #GrainEmbargo #UkrainePolandCheckpoints
In the current trading season, Ukraine’s agricultural exports decreased by 27%, and farmers’ annual losses will reach $3B. From July 1 to December 15, Ukraine exported about 24 million tons of grain, oilseeds, and their processed products, which is nine million tons less than in the corresponding period last year, accordi... #agroexportukraine #AgroLossesUkraine #agroUkraine #OlegKhomenko
This year, Ukraine managed to increase the export of agricultural products by 7% and earn $22.9B. This year, Ukraine’s grain supply reached 43 million tons, up from 37 million tons in 2022, said Deputy Minister of Agricultural Policy Taras Vysotskyi. Active exports started in October. Since then, ... #agroexportukraine #GrainCorridors #TarasVysotskyi #Ukrainiangrain
Ukraine has collected 78.7 million tons of new harvest and increased its agricultural exports to the EU by 11%. As of the third week of December, farmers in all regions of Ukraine have threshed 78.7 million tons of grain and oil crops: 57.86 million tons and 20.76 million, respectively. Compared to data from th... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #GrainHarvestUkraine
Ukrainian enterprises are increasing oil crop processing. As reported by the agriculture oil association, in the 2023/24 season an increase in the internal processing of oil crops by 3.5 million tons is predicted, with the increase coming from sunflower seed... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #ProcessingPlantUkraine #SunflowerOil
Ukrainian agricultural exports will become a cornerstone in the process of European integration. Ukrainian producers of goods constantly suffer from pressure from several EU countries, which try to limit the supply of their agricultural products in various ways, said the deputy head of the All-Uk... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #DenysMarchuk #EuropeanIntegration
Ukraine priotitizes restoring shipping in the Black Sea to pre-war levels and asks for new air defense systems to increase its exports. Ukraine’s Black Sea grain corridor is performing better than expected, but stronger air defenses are needed to quicken ship loading and improve port protection, said Infrastructure Minister Olek... #agroexportukraine #AirDefenseSystems #GrainCorridors #OleksandrKubrakov #PortInfrastructureUkraine
Ukraine’s output from the export of agricultural products fell by 7%. In January-November, Ukraine exported agricultural food products worth $19.637B, 7% less than in the corresponding period of 2022, according to the analysis from the Institute of Agrarian Economics. A... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #BorderBlockade #GrainCorridors
Due to Russian aggression this year, Ukraine exported 26.4% less grain. The actual volume of grain exports by Ukraine since the beginning of the 2023/2024 marketing year as of December 13 is 14.697 million tons, which is 26.4% less than in the same period last year. Meanw... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #GrainHarvestUkraine #Ukrainiangrain
The volume of Ukrainian food exports by road transport is gradually recovering after the partial opening of the border with Poland. It is noted that Ukrainian food exports by road reached 142,000 tons by December11, compared to 187,000 tons for the same period in November. There is a gradual recovery of transport flows on the bord... #agroexportukraine #RoadTransportAgreements #ВідвантаженнятоварівУкраїна
Romania is further increasing Ukrainian agricultural exports through the Black Sea. Among their steps is the creation of an anchorage in the port of Constanta, the construction of which is planned to be completed in March 2024, said the general director of The Ukrainian Danube Shippi... #agroexportukraine #BlackSeaCorridor #ConstantaPort #DanubeShippingCompany #DmytroMoskalenko
Agrarian analysts predict that Ukrainian wheat prices at seaports will increase. According to the Ukrainian Agri Council (UAC), prices for Ukrainian wheat in the seaports of the Odesa region are expected to rise. It is predicted that in Odessa, prices will go up by $3-$5 per ton i... #agroexportukraine #GrainCorridors #Ukrainiangrain #Ukrainianwheatprice #WheatExport
This year, Ukraine grew 6% of the world’s grain production. Thhe Ukrainian Grain Association (UGA) notes that in 2023 farmers produced 81 million tons of gross grain harvest. “Ukraine is located on such soils that we depend on weather factors more than t... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #GrainHarvestUkraine #Ukrainiangrain
200 merchant ships have left Ukrainian Black Sea ports through the temporary corridor. Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov has reported that, since the beginning of the temporary corridor’s operation in the Black Sea was announced by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in August 2023 ... #agroexportukraine #BlackSeaPorts #GrainCorridors #OleksandrKubrakov #Zelenskyy #ВідвантаженнятоварівУкраїна
The EU sees no negative impact from Ukraine’s agricultural exports. The European Commission does not see significant negative consequences for European markets from Ukrainian agrarian imports. This was discussed at the European Parliament Committee on Agriculture and ... #AgroEU #agroexportukraine #PathsOfSolidarity #PierreBascou
French producers ask the EC to limit the import of Ukrainian sugar to the EU. French sugar beet producers are demanding that increasingly larger imports of sugar from Ukraine be re-exported outside of Europe so as not to harm local producers. Ukrainian sugar exports to the EU m... #AgroEU #agroexportukraine #SugarExport #SugarProduction
UZ increased the volume of transported grain and grinding products by 5.8%. Ukrainian Railways (UZ) in January-October 2023 increased the transportation volume of grain and grinding products by 5.8% year over year (1.32 million tons) to 24.26 million tons. In 10 months, 17.55... #agroexportukraine #Cargotransportation #UkrainianRailways #UZCargoTransportation
The Supreme Audit Chamber of Poland has completed an investigation into the uncontrolled import of grain from Ukraine. The cause of the “grain crisis” was the inefficient actions and decisions of the Polish government. “Implementation of tasks related to the import and trade of grain and rapeseed fro... #agroexportukraine #GrainCrisis #Ukrainiangrain
The EC warns of difficult negotiations with Ukraine over grain exports. European Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski emphasized that since the beginning of the war in Ukraine and the abolition of customs barriers, the EU market has become the largest recipie... #AgroEU #agroexportukraine #JanuszWojciechowski #UkraineAccessionToEU #UkraineEU #Ukrainiangrain
Ukraine is approaching record monthly soybean exports. Ukraine has already exported 425,000 tons of soybeans in 20 days of November. If this month’s exports reach 560,000 tons, analysts said it will be an absolute record for the entirety of Ukraine&... #agroexportukraine #Soybeansexport #SoybeansUkraine #Ukrainiangrain
Due to imports from Ukraine, five neighbors of Ukraine have asked the EU to continue financial support for their agricultural sectors. Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and Romania called on the European Commission to continue financial support for farmers affected by Ukrainian grain imports throughout 2024, Bulgarian Minister of ... #AgroEU #agroexportukraine #AidForFarmers #EUfarmers #KyryllVatev
Since the beginning of the war, Ukraine has changed the geography of its agricultural exports. Since the beginning of the full-scale war with Russia, Ukraine has been forced to change the geography of its agricultural exports, as a result of which the European share in January-October 2023 reac... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #BlackSeaCorridor #GrainCorridors #Ukrainiangrainexport
Due to export restrictions, a large harvest will not bring profit to Ukrainian farmers. As Deputy Minister of Agricultural Policy Taras Vysotsky said, the agricultural sector will remain unprofitable due to limited opportunities for export and low prices on the domestic market, despite a... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #GrainHarvestUkraine #TarasVysotskyi
The war has accelerated Ukraine’s expansion of its processing industry. “If we take OECD standards, in developed countries, the share of the processing industry in GDP is 20%. Therefore, we set ourselves the task of increasing the share of processing in Ukrainian GD... #agroexportukraine #ProcessingPlantUkraine #UkraineEconomy #YuliyaSvyridenko
New rules for food exports have come into effect in Ukraine. Ukraine is introducing the mandatory registration of food exporting companies to prevent abuses such as tax evasion when exporting key agricultural commodities. According to the government’s res... #AgroBusinessUkraine #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #TaxesFromFarming
The EU is considering supplying Ukrainian grain to Egypt due to the worsening situation in Gaza. The EU is considering the possibility of providing Ukrainian grain to Egypt within the framework of the agreement between Brussels and Cairo on migration restrictions and financial support in connecti... #agroexportukraine #CharlesMichel #Ukrainiangrain #UrsulavonderLeyen
The export of Ukrainian flour has increased by more than 20%. As reported by the Flour Mills of Ukraine union, Ukrainian flour producers in the 2022/23 marketing year increased the export of their products to 149,700 tons, which is 20.1% higher than the pre-war ... #agroexportukraine #FlourProduction #UkrainianFlour
The export of Ukrainian dairy products have decreased by 10% during the year. During the nine months of the current year, Ukraine’s dairy product turnover was reduced by 9.7% compared to the same period last year – from $353.4 to $318.8M. It is noted that the volume of da... #agroexportukraine #DairyproductionUkraine #MilkProductionUkraine #UkrainedairyExport #UkraineForeignTrade
The Ukrainian government presents steps to ensure global food security. Minister of Economy Yulia Svyridenko stated during the summit in Malta that free and safe navigation in the Black and Azov Seas is a critical point for guaranteeing food security. In addition, importi... #agroexportukraine #GlobalFoodSecurity #GrainCorridors #Ukrainiangrain #YuliyaSvyridenko
Ukraine suspended the new grain corridor’s operations due to threat from the Russian Federation, but businesses are strengthening the Odesa region’s air defense. On October 26, Ukraine suspended use of the new Black Sea grain corridor due to a threat from Russian military aircraft. It is reported that a de facto suspension has been in effect for the past two d... #agroexportukraine #AirDefenseSystems #GrainCorridors #PivdennyiSeaPort
Ukraine does not have enough export channels for its agricultural products. The temporary sea corridor has allowed only 700,000 tons of grain to pass through Ukrainian seaports. Minister of Agricultural Policy Mykola Solsky noted during the EU Council on Agriculture meeting t... #agroexportukraine #CrimeaPlatform #DanubePorts #MykolaSolsky #Zelenskyy
Ukraine can export its products by sea without any guarantees from Russia. Negotiations on Moscow’s return to the grain agreement, from which it withdrew, no longer make sense since the humanitarian sea corridor is working successfully without the Russian Federation, t... #agroexportukraine #blacksea #GrainAgreement #GrainCorridors #RussiaBlackSeaFleet #ВідвантаженнятоварівУкраїна
Grain export decreased by 30% despite regular movement of ships to and from ports, 25% lower freight rates, and cheaper insurance. Since the beginning of the new marketing season, Ukraine has exported 7.8 million tons of grain and leguminous crops, which is 3.73 million tons, or 32.3%, less than in the same period last year. Duri... #agroexportukraine #BlackSeaCorridor #BlackSeaPorts #UkraineGrainExport
Romania will create five anchorages for the transshipment of Ukrainian grain in the port of Constanta; the Danube route’s capacities are increasing. The Ukrainian Grain Association (UGA) initiated the creation of anchorages in Romanian territorial waters for transshipment of Ukrainian grain from barges to large-tonnage ships to significantly reduc... #agroexportukraine #ConstantaPort #DanubePorts #SulinaCanal #Ukrainiangrain
The transit of Ukrainian agricultural products through the western border is only 25% of the potential. According to Dmytro Solomchuk, a member of the Ukrainian Parliament Committee on Agrarian Policy, export volume is less than it used to be because customs inspections of road and rail transport is ver... #agroexportukraine #GrainEmbargo #ВідвантаженнятоварівУкраїна
Ukraine has brought the volume of sugar exports closer to the highest historical figures. According to official data, Ukrainian companies exported 25,000 tons of sugar in September. Since the beginning of the season (October 2022), the export of this product has reached 427,000 tons. The m... #agroexportukraine #SugarExport #SugarfromUkraine #SugarProduction
Ukrainian ports have lost 40% of their export potential due to Russian attacks. Since the withdrawal from the grain agreement, the Russian Federation has carried out 17 attacks, which led to a 40% decrease in the export potential of the ports, Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr... #agroexportukraine #OleksandrKubrakov #PortInfrastructureUkraine #UkraineSeaPorts #WarinUkraine
The Netherlands will help Ukraine guarantee the security of the Black Sea export corridor and to survive the winter. In particular, the Netherlands will help Ukraine to acquire patrol ships to ensure the security of the grain corridor. In addition, Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced a new decision by the Netherlands to s... #agroexportukraine #blacksea #GrainCorridors #MarkRutte #NetherlandsAid #SupportUkraine
