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As of April 7, agrarians of Ukraine started the planting campaign of corn for grain. To date, the planted areas reached 28.1 thsd ha in 13 oblasts. The planned areas under corn total nearly 4.5 mln ha, declared the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine.

In January 2016, Ukraine increased the exports of corn to the European Union by 84.8% compared with the index in the same month of 2015, declared the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine on March 26. According to the announcement, the exports of Ukrainian sunflower oil to the EU grew by 72.5%, rapeseed oil - up 6%, sugar - up 3.2%, eggs without shells - up 2.1%.

In January-February 2016, the production volumes of agricultural commodities in Ukraine decreased by 2.1% compared with the same period in 2015 at the expense of fall of animal husbandry commodities, announced the State Statistics Service of Ukraine on March 14.

The planted areas under spring crops in Ukraine will increase by nearly 1.7 mln ha, which requires additional resources provision. Due to adverse weather conditions in the autumn, agrarians failed to plant winter grains throughout nearly 0.9 mln ha, and winter rapeseed throughout 237 thsd ha. In addition, the planted areas of almost 600 thsd ha did not receive sprouts at all, declared the First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, Yaroslav Krasnopolskiy on March 1.