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.
According to results of the year 2018, food production in Ukraine declined by 1.9%, while producer and consumer prices increased respectively by 9.6% and 11.5%. The analysts of UAC admit this based on the data from the State Statistics Service.
Ukraine has dropped one position in the top 20 agricultural exporters to the European Union based on monetary value, and is now in fifth position, according to the latest Monitoring EU Agri-Food Trade report of the European Commission, published in early January.
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.