News From Agro-Industrial Complex

As of October 23 of the current year, Ukraine sowed winter grains throughout 7.6 mln ha (97% from the forecasted areas), which nearly corresponds to the previous year level, declared the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine.

From the beginning of the current marketing year (MY, July 2009 – June 2010), and as of October 22, Ukraine exported 8.2 mln tonnes of grains, an increase of 2.5% compared to the same period of 2008/09 MY, according to the information of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.

Ukraine harvested 42.85 million metric tons of grain in the year to Oct. 20 on 14.5 million hectares, or 94% of the total area to be harvested, with an average yield of 2.95 tons a hectare, the Agriculture Ministry said Wednesday.

Grain stocks in Ukraine on Oct. 1 totaled 23.4 million metric tons, 7% less than on the same date last year, the state statistics committee said Thursday. The grain stocks included 13 million tons of wheat, 6.2 million tons of barley, 1.1 million tons of corn and 900,000 tons of rye.