Ukraine exported 16.557 million metric tons of grain between the beginning of the current marketing year July 1, 2009 and March 2 this year compared with 16.307 million tons in the corresponding period in the previous marketing year, the Agriculture Ministry reported Friday.
There have been long delays in exports of wheat from Black Sea ports due to heavy snow and cold weather in the growing regions and this is preventing any further fall in prices despite ample supplies, trading executives said Wednesday.
“Shipments scheduled for January spilled over to February and those for this month into March,” said an exporter based in Ukraine.
According to the data of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, as of January 29, 2010, trading volumes of grains of the harvest-2009 on the exchange market of Ukraine totaled 16.41 mln tonnes, including 6.85 mln tonnes on spot contract terms, and 9.55 mln tonnes on forward terms.
From the beginning of the current marketing year (MY, July 2009/June 2010), Ukraine exported nearly 16 mln tonnes of grains, declared Ivan Demchak, the Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy, on February 3.
Ukraine exported in July-December, the first six months of the current marketing year, 6.9 million metric tons of wheat, 4% more than in the corresponding period in the previous marketing year, the agriculture ministry reported Monday.
In 2009, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Ukraine) produced 94.9 thsd tonnes of rice, an increase of 55.1% compared to 2008, declared the Main statistics department of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
Exporters in Ukraine have sold several hundred containers of feed wheat to Vietnamese buyers at a price of $230 per ton, basis cost and freight, a trading executive involved in the deal said Wednesday.
As of January 14, winter grains sowings in Ukraine were in good condition throughout 3.94 mln ha, which totaled 46.1% from the general volumes of winter crops sowing areas. Winter grains areas with satisfactory conditions occupied 3.74 mln ha, or 43.9%, declared the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.
The government of Ukraine realized special anti-crisis measures for stabilization of the situation in the agro industrial complex of the country, which allowed to provide the positive rates of growth of the agricultural production in 2009, declared Bogdan Danilishyn, the Minister of Economics of Ukraine.
According to preliminary data of the State Committee of Statistics of Ukraine, in 2009, the general production volumes of the agricultural industry of all varieties of agrarian economies of Ukraine increased by 0.1%, including agrarian enterprises – reduced by 0.6%, economies of the population – grew by 0.6%, declared the State Committee of Statistics on January 18.