Ukraine’s grain exports should be up 23% this marketing year over 2017-2018 levels

Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Ukraine’s grain exports should be up 23% this marketing year over 2017-2018 levels

Ukraine’s grain exports should be up 23% this marketing year over 2017-2018 levels, Elena Kovaleva, deputy minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, said Monday in Geneva at the annual meeting of the Rapid Response Forum of the Agricultural Marketing Information System. Encompassing producing and consuming countries of corn, rice, soybeans and wheat, the forum promote policy coordination for food crises. “Ukraine remains a stable, reliable partner and exporter of agricultural products,” Kovaleva said. Raising her ministry’s forecast by 4%, she said: “In this marketing year, we expect that grain exports from Ukraine will reach 49 million tons.”

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