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Ukraine's grain exports have risen to 2.56 million tonnes so far in the 2023/24 season, up from 2 million tonnes recorded at the same time in last year's season, data from the Ukrainian Agriculture Ministry showed on Monday.

The country's exports have been hit since Russia pulled out of a United Nations-backed grains deal last month, but data provided by the ministry did not detail export information since the deal collapsed.

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The total volume of grain exports for this season, which runs from July to June, included 1.27 million tonnes of corn, 977,000 tonnes of wheat and 329,000 tonnes of barley.

This compares with exports of 1.3 million tonnes of corn, 467,000 tonnes of wheat and 180,000 tonnes of barley on August 6, 2022, the data showed.

Exports for the entire 2022/23 harvest were almost 49 million tons, surpassing the 48.4 million tons of the previous season.

Most of the volume was shipped through deep Black Sea ports under the deal brokered by the United Nations and Turkey last July to address a global food crisis worsened by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and blockade of Ukrainian ports.

Russia left the deal on July 17 after saying its demands to ease sanctions on its own grain and fertilizer exports had not been met. Moscow also complained that not enough grain was reaching poor countries.

Production in Ukraine, a major grain producer and exporter, fell to around 53 million tonnes in clean weight in calendar 2022, down from a record 86 million tonnes in 2021.

The ministry said the harvest could decline to around 46 million tonnes of grain in 2023.

Source: Pavel Polityuk | Agricultural News 

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