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Ukraine's grain exports in the first days of July, the first month of the new 2023/24 (July/June) season, totaled 34,000 metric tons, half of that recorded in the same period in 2022, the Ministry of Agriculture reported on Monday .
The ministry said the volume in the new season so far includes 9,000 tonnes of wheat and 25,000 tonnes of corn.
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Exports for the entire 2022/23 season were almost 49 million tons, surpassing the previous cycle's level of 48.4 million tons.
Business association UCAB said that exports totaled 3.8 million tons of grains in June, in addition to 513.5 thousand tons of vegetable oil.
Nearly half the volume, 2 million tonnes, was shipped abroad from 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 a blockade of Ukrainian ports.
Ukrainian officials have said that Russia is in fact blocking Black Sea shipments, and that Kiev must be ready to export grain almost exclusively through its ports on the Danube River.
Source: Pavel Polityuk | Notícias Agrícolas
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