The current season features a record gain in rye supplies from Ukraine. So, the country exported 85.1 KMT of rye in July-January 2018/19 that is already 123% more than in the whole of MY 2017/18 (38.2 KMT) and the largest volume since MY 2002/03, reports UkrAgroConsult.
During January-February 2019 ASTARTA purchased 130 grain hoppers from Ukrainian producers “Dniprowagonmash” and “Kriukivskyi wagon construction plant”.
In the year 2018, Ukraine significantly expanded the geography of agricultural products exports, having entered 85 new markets, the State Service of Ukraine on Food Safety and Consumer Protection (SSUFSCP) reports.
The oilseed crushing plant of Ukrainian agroholding Astarta-Kyiv in Globino district of Poltava region produced 40 KMT of soybean oil in 2018.
Last week, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine published preliminary data on the total 2018 harvest of grains and oilseeds. Officially, the harvest amounted to 69.8 MMT. In particular, the corn crop is estimated at 35.57 MMT against the previous official estimate of 35 MMT (24.67 MMT last year).
According to official preliminary information of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine on oilseed production in 2018, the total crop of sunflower seed amounted to 14.16 MMT, up 15.7% from last year. Soybean production was up 14.4% year-on-year at 4.46 MMT. The total rapeseed crop increased by 25.1%, to 2.75 MMT, reports UkrAgroConsult.
ASTARTA harvested record high level of grains and oilseeds in 2018 – 1.065 mln tons (+35% y-o-y). Total harvest of corn was over 620 thousand tons with the average yield of crop of 9.8 tons per ha.
According to results of 11 months of 2018, domestic agricultural and food exports grew by $621.4 million compared with the corresponding period in 2017 and totaled $17.02 billion.
In the period from January to November 2018, Ukraine exported 97.95 thou. tons of eggs for the amount of USD 85.4 million, which is 22% more than in the relevant prior-year period.
A record-high grain yield for all the years of independence of Ukraine provided foreign currency revenue from agricultural exports and thus strengthened the national currency — hryvnia. This was informed by Oleg Churiy, Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), EPravda reports.