Ukraine’s 2022/23 grain exports at 47.5 mln T as of June 16 – ministry

Ukraine’s grain exports for the 2022/23 season stood at 47.5 million metric tons as of June 16, two weeks before the end of the marketing year, Agriculture Ministry data showed on Friday.

The ministry did not give an exact comparison for the same date a year ago but said that Ukraine had exported 47.8 million tons of grain as of June 17, 2022.

The volume in the current July-to-June season so far includes 16.3 million ton of wheat, 28.2 million ton of corn and about 2.7 million ton of barley.

The ministry said grain exports in June had reached 1.8 million tons.

After a blockade caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, access to three Ukrainian Black Sea ports was cleared at the end of July last year under a deal between Moscow and Kyiv brokered by the United Nations and Turkey.

A major grain grower and exporter, Ukraine’s grain output dropped to about 53 million tons in clean weight in the 2022 calendar year from a record 86 million tons in 2021.

The ministry has said the crop could fall to 44.5 million tons of grain in 2023.

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