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In 2016, more than half of Ukraine's grain exports were sent to Asian countries, namely China, India, Indonesia and Thailand. This is reported by the press service of the National Research Center 'Institute of Agrarian Economics' (IAE), citing IAE Deputy Director Mykola Puhachov.

Currently, 277 Ukrainian enterprises have the right to supply their products to the European Union countries. Agrarian Policy and Food Minister of Ukraine Taras Kutovyi said this during the meeting with EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Andriukaitis within the framework of the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture in Berlin, the Government portal reports.

Egypt, the world's largest grain importer, is streamlining its import procedures and establishing a registry of companies that will inspect potential purchases abroad, the Trade Ministry said on Friday.

Agricultural company Nibulon, which is the member of Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation, harvested over 340,000 tonnes of agricultural crops in 2016, and this is 10% more than in 2015. According to a posting on the company's website, this is the largest harvest in the history of the company.