In October, Ukraine to export over 3 mln tonnes of grains

In October 2013 Ukraine will reach the maximum rates of grain shipments per month - over 3 mln tonnes, which allows to the country to supply the planned volumes of 30 mln tonnes of grains on foreign markets until the end of 2013/14 MY, announced Nikolai Prysiazhniuk, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine.

He said, since the beginning of July 2013 agrarians already supplied 8.9 mln tonnes of grains on foreign markets, up nearly 8% compared with the last year index for the same period.

To date, there are loaded several vessels with the general capacity of over 800 thsd tonnes in the Ukrainian ports, which already received with more than 350 thsd tonnes of grains.

According to N.Prysiazhniuk, in terms of the further increasing of the harvest volumes, and consequently, the export volumes, it is necessary to enlarge capacities of the infrastructure. Therefore, the significant investment in development of grain logistics is one of the most important aspects of the strategy of development of the agricultural sector by 2020, summed up N.Prysiazhniuk.

APK-Inform