Ukraine’s grain exports in the 2024/25 July-June season had reached 6 million metric tons as of Aug. 21, up from 3.6 million tons by the same date of the previous season, agriculture ministry data showed on Wednesday.
The volume included 2.8 million tons of wheat, 2.2 million tons of corn and 1 million tons of barley.
The ministry said traders have exported 2.34 million tons of grain so far in August, up from 1.33 million in the same period last year.
The ministry has said that the 2024 combined grain and oilseed crop could fall to 77 million tons, including 56 million tons of grain.
Ukraine’s grain exports in the 2023/24 marketing season rose to about 51 million tons from 49.2 million a year earlier.
Source: Reuters (Reporting by Pavel Polityuk, Editing by Louise Heavens)
