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July 8th, 2016 Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation carried out the roundtable within the framework of All-Ukrainian project contest Agro Challenge. The event was devoted to IT innovations in agricultural sector.  The representatives of  public and international organizations (UAC, UCC, FAO, U.S.-Ukraine Business Council), agricultural holdings (Ukrlandfarming, Astrata Ukraine, Kernel Trade) and  IT companies (Intel, Ciklum, UA Technology, Skyline Software,  USP),

In January-May period of 2016, Ukrainian flour milling enterprises produced 755 thsd tonnes of flour, a decrease of 5.5% compared with the same period in 2015, declared the State Statistics Service of Ukraine. At the same time, the production volumes in May 2016 totaled 131 thsd tonnes, down 20.4% compared with April, and down 13.5% compared with the same month last year.

The growth of soybeans production allows to Ukraine to increase the oilseed processing volumes, and in the season-2016/17 the index will reach nearly 1 mln tonnes, declared the Deputy Commercial Director on sales of oilseed crops and by-products at the agri-industrial holding Astarta-Kyiv, Ostap Palchevsky.

Since the beginning of 2015/16 MY, and as of June 10, Ukraine exported 37.292 mln tonnes of grains, declared the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. In particular, wheat exports totaled 15.941 mln tonnes, corn – 16.8 mln tonnes, barley – 4.32 mln tonnes, and other grains – 231 thsd tonnes.