News From Agro-Industrial Complex

Ukraine is likely to export in December no more than 1.5 million metric tons of grain, down from the average 2 million tons a month this marketing year, the Ukrainian Grain Association announced Monday.

Ukraine is to attempt to reverse a long-running fall in sugar beet production which has turned the country into a sugar importer at a time of soaring prices. Kiev is to encourage farmers to raise beet plantings by 37% in 2010, to help boost domestic sugar output by some 80% to 2.5m tonnes, deputy farm minister Ivan Demchak said, according to the Kommersant newspaper.

As of November 25, the Crimea sowed winter crops throughout the area of 610 thsd ha, or 92% from the planned areas.

From the beginning of the current MY (July 2009 – June 2010), and as of November 30, 2010, Ukraine exported 11.3 mln tonnes of grains, an increase of 7% compared to the same date of 2008, declared the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.