During eleven months of 2009, the volumes of agriculture products output in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Ukraine) increased by 5.6% compared to the same period of 2008, including plant growing products – by 7.2%.
In 2009, Ukraine exported 24.9 mln tonnes of grains, declared Julia Timoshenko, the Prime Minister of Ukraine, on December 29.
In 2009, Ukraine harvested over 48.5 mln tonnes of grains as opposed to the previous year volumes of 53.3 mln tonnes, declared Julia Timoshenko, the Prime Minister of Ukraine, on December 29. According to her, Ukraine also founded the state food reserve of grains at the volume of nearly 1.41 mln tonnes.
In January-October of 2009, commodity exports from Ukraine totaled 31.65 bln USD, imports – 35.9 bln USD, which totaled 53.5% and 47.6% compared to January-October of 2008 respectively.
Ukraine is likely to export in December no more than 1.5 million metric tons of grain, down from the average 2 million tons a month this marketing year, the Ukrainian Grain Association announced Monday.
Ukraine harvested 48.5 million metric tons of grain to Dec. 17 on 15.47 million hectares, or 99.9% of the total area to be harvested, with the average yield of 3.13 tons a hectare, the Agriculture Ministry said Friday.
Ukraine is to attempt to reverse a long-running fall in sugar beet production which has turned the country into a sugar importer at a time of soaring prices. Kiev is to encourage farmers to raise beet plantings by 37% in 2010, to help boost domestic sugar output by some 80% to 2.5m tonnes, deputy farm minister Ivan Demchak said, according to the Kommersant newspaper.
Ukraine rapeseed harvest in 2010 is likely to increase by 20% compared with this year to 2.25 million metric tons, leading Ukrainian agricultural analyst APKInform said Friday.
As of November 25, the Crimea sowed winter crops throughout the area of 610 thsd ha, or 92% from the planned areas.
As of November 30, Ukraine harvested 47.8 mln tonnes of grains, a decrease of 12.2% compared to the same date of 2008, declared the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.