Since the beginning of the new MY, Ukraine has reduced grain exports by 32.3%

As of October 18, 2023, Ukraine’s actual grain exports since the beginning of the 2023/2024 marketing year (July 2023 to June 2024) amounted to 7.801 million tons. This was reported by the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food.

This is 32.3% or 3.725 million tons less than in the same period of the previous marketing year. Then this figure was 11526 tons.

So far, Ukraine has exported 3,992 thousand tons of wheat, 654 thousand tons of barley, 0.8 thousand tons of rye and 3,036 thousand tons of corn.

It is important to note that during this period, exports of wheat flour and flour from other crops increased by 23.6%, or 7.6 thousand tons, to 39.7 thousand tons.

Minister of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development Oleksandr Kubrakov said that after Russia withdrew from the grain deal, the aggressor country launched 17 massive attacks on Ukrainian ports. Their export potential has decreased by 40%.

In order to at least somehow continue exports via the Black Sea, in August Ukraine opened temporary routes for merchant ships traveling to and from seaports across the Black Sea. However, at first, the ships that used the corridor did so for evacuation purposes. It was only on September 16 that it became known that the first two civilian ships used the route to the Chornomorsk port to load wheat for Africa and Asia.

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