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2012-01-19T19:41:00.000Z

January 18, 2012 Wednesday 07:44 PM GMT+4

Ukraine becomes world's third biggest grain exporter in 2011 - minister
Upon the results of 2011, Ukraine became one of the world's three biggest grain exporter countries, Ukrainian Minister of Agricultural Policy and Food Nikolai Prisyazhnyuk said on Wednesday.
In his words, "Ukraine become the world leader in terms of barley export, and ranked sixth in terms of wheat supplies to foreign states."
Besides, the country can report not only the hike of grain export, but also other sorts of food, the minister said, adding, "We are leading exporters of sunflower oil. We ranked second in terms of its production and third in terms of sunflower seed production."
According to the ministry, Ukraine has exported 9.65 million tonnes of grain since the beginning of the new marketing year (from July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012), Prisyazhnyuk said, adding that the indicator is 2.86 million tonnes than in the previous marketing year.
In all, Ukraine's agricultural supplies went up by 30 percent over six months to exceed 10 billion U.S. dollars, while the foreign trade surplus neared 4.8 billion U.S. dollars, the minister said.
"These achievements allow us to make upward forecasts pertaining further development of Ukraine as an agricultural country," Prisyazhnyuk said.
"While bringing into comparison the grain yield and gross harvest of the aforesaid plants with average indicators in the EU states, we can say that Ukraine has a potential in order to almost double agricultural output in the near future," he said, adding, "The agricultural production will make it possible to guarantee the country's food security and may be exported to the global markets."
In 2011, Ukraine's farmers harvested 56.7 million tonnes of grain in the bunker weight (before cleaning and drying), which is 44.3 percent more than in 2010, Prisyazhnyuk said.
Herein, an average grain yield amounted to 3,800 kilograms per hectare. "The country hit its record high over many years," the minister said earlier, adding that corn yield reached 6,400 kilograms per hectares, which is about 30 percent more than in 2010.
In 2010, Ukraine's grain harvest decreased by 14.7 percent, as compared to 2009, and totalled 39.27 million tonnes, Prisyazhnyuk said.
Over the years of independence, Ukraine gathered the biggest grain harvest (53.29 million tonnes) in 2008, he reaffirmed.
At the end of 2011, the minister stated that Ukraine may export up to 27 million tonnes of grain in the 2011-2012 marketing year. Under preliminary estimates of the Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food, which were published earlier, the country could export about 20-25 million tonnes of train in the above-mentioned period.
In the previous marketing year, Ukraine supplied abroad seven million tonnes of grain.
According to official data, Ukraine's domestic food grain demand is estimated at seven million tonnes, the minister said.

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2012-01-06T17:27:00.000Z

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2011-12-15T09:59:00.002Z

Ukraine joins world's top three grain exporters

World-Grain.com, Dec. 14, 2011

by World Grain Staff

KYIV, UKRAINE — The Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Mykola Prysyazhnyuk said on Dec. 14 that Ukraine has improved its grain exporting status due to the improved grain harvest and reduction of limitations on export millage.

Prysyazhnyuk said that Ukraine was leading in world barley exports, ranking number one globally. In 2011 wheat export of Ukraine landed the country the 6th position on the global market, according to the minister. Moreover, this year Ukraine became the third corn supplier in the world, surpassing Brazil and being the second runner-up to the U.S. and Argentina. Overall, in 2011 Ukraine increased its agricultural export by 30%.

Ukraine cropped the record amount of grain in 20 years since declaring independence. The unprecedented harvest — over 55 million tonnes of grain — as well as the removal of the export taxes and quotas contributed to the export boost in 2011. The decision of the Ukrainian government to refrain from limiting the country's grain export in the future went public last week.

Last year Ukraine took the fourth spot on the list of world's leading grain exporters, following the U.S., the E.U., and Canada.

Given Ukraine's rich grain production in 2011, this August the country initiated the creation of the world's grain reserve under the auspices of the United Nations. Prysyazhnyuk explained that Ukraine aimed to form a grain reserve of 10 to 12 million tonnes, preserve it and make grain interventions on the market following the respective decisions by the UN. This would allow for more efficient price regulation on the world grain market.

2011-12-06T21:01:00.001Z

December 6, 2011 Tuesday

Grain exports outlook revised downward.
The outlook of grain export in 2011-2012 marketing year was revised downward by 11-12% to 23-24mn tonnes, the head of the ministry's economic development and agrarian market department Serhiy Kvasha has said. He noted that due to unfavorable weather conditions for sowing of winter crops, which have formed in Ukraine today, the government increased its forecast as to volumes of carryover stocks of bread grain twofold, from 2.4mn tons to 5mn tonnes. According to the ministry, as of December 1, grain export made up 6.919mn tonnes, out of these, wheat - 2.146mn tonnes, including milling wheat 1.107mn tonnes and 1.04mn tonnes of fodder wheat, barley - 1.837mn tonnes and corn - 2.85mn tonnes

2011-11-23T15:14:00.001Z

Russia reduces grain export rates

According to the monitoring of experts of APK-Inform Agency, in the period of November 14-20, 2011, export companies of Russia shipped 200.2 thsd tonnes of grains, which shows the decrease of exports by 8.5% per week. As a reminder, in the previous week the level of shipments of these products from the country totaled 218.8 thsd tonnes, down 43% compared to the volume (385.5 thsd tonnes), sold in the first week of November 2011.

In particular, the deep-sea port of Rostov-on-Don and Novorossiysk decreased own shipment rates, which shipment volumes formed the largest share of sold grain products. Thus, in the reporting period the port of Novorossiysk did not realize any shipment, while in the previous week Novorossiysk shipped 55 thsd tonnes of wheat against 145.6 thsd tonnes shipped in early November. According to official sources, such sharp decline of grain exports from Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port is caused by the fact that in the period of November 8-11, 2011, the port realized shipping in very slow rates due to overloading of the grain terminal of the port, which resulted in formation of "traffic jam" of grain rail cars. According to port workers, acceptance of grains still be made and soon the situation in Novorossiysk to normalize.

We should note that in the period the deep-sea port of Tuapse exported 80.5 thsd tonnes of wheat, the port of Yeysk - 45.8 thsd tonnes of wheat, and maize - 13.3 thsd tonnes. The port of Azov shipped 24.7 thsd tonnes and 7 thsd tonnes of these products, respectively. It should be noted that for the first time during recent two seasons Azov shipped 6.3 thsd tonnes of wheat to Tanzania. Besides, the port shipped 9.3 thsd tonnes of barley transit. The deep-sea port of Taganrog exported 6.9 thsd tonnes of wheat and 4 thsd tonnes of maize, also shipped 5 thsd tonnes of barley, which is transit cargo through Ukraine.

During November 14-20, 2011, Volgograd river port increased grain exports to the level of 8.5 thsd tonnes of wheat against 2.9 thsd tonnes, and 9.5 thsd tonnes of barley against 5.2 thsd tonnes shipped in the previous week.

Turkey (65.5 thsd tonnes), Morocco (53.4 thsd tonnes), Egypt (33.9 thsd tonnes) and Libya (27 thsd tonnes) were the major importers of Russian grains.

2011-11-23T15:02:00.003Z

Kazakhstan produced the largest harvest during recent 55 years – N.Nazarbayev

On November 11, Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan, called the current production volumes of grains in the country as the unprecedented record.
According to him, the country produced the largest grain harvest during recent 55 years - almost 30 mln tonnes, including 20 mln tonnes of wheat.
As a reminder, in the present harvesting campaign agrarians produced 29.7 mln tonnes of grains with the average yield of 18.5 c/ha.
In 2011, the sowing areas of all agricultural crops totaled 21.2 mln ha, including grain sowing areas - 16.2 mln ha, including wheat areas - 13.8 mln ha.
Last year Kazakhstan harvested 13.8 mln tonnes of grains with the average yield of 9 c/ha. In 2010, the grain harvest in clean weight totaled 12.2 mln tonnes.

2011-11-23T15:02:00.001Z

Belarus completed the harvesting campaign of maize

Belarus completed the harvesting campaign of maize for grain, declared the main department of plant growing of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food.
Agrarians harvested maize for grain throughout the areas of 181.6 thsd ha, which totaled 100% of the harvesting areas. The production volumes totaled 1.604 mln tonnes of maize grain in bunker weight, with the average yield of 88.4 c/ha.
In general, production volumes of maize for grain in clean weight are expected to exceed last year volumes in 2 times. In 2010 the index totaled 546.2 thsd tonnes.

2011-11-23T15:01:00.001Z

As of November 16, Ukraine produced 54.6 mln tonnes of grains

As of November 16, 2011, Ukraine produced 54.68 mln tonnes of grains, reported the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food.
According to the announcement, agrarians harvested grains and leguminous crops throughout the areas of 14.88 mln ha, or 97% of the forecast. The average yield of these crops in the country totaled 36.7 c/ha against 28.4 c/ha last year.
Agrarians harvested 19.09 mln tonnes of maize throughout 3.012 mln ha (87% of the forecast). The average yield totaled 61.1 c/ha, as opposed to 45.8 c/ha in 2010.
Ukraine also produced 2.23 mln tonnes of soybean throughout the areas of 1.1 mln ha (98%). The average yield totaled 20.3 c/ha, as opposed to 16.1 c/ha in 2010.
The expected production volumes of grains of the harvest-2011 will total nearly 54 mln tonnes.

2011-11-23T14:59:00.001Z

As of November 1, 2011, Russia produced 96 mln tonnes of grains – Rosstat

As of November 1, 2011, agrarians of the Russian Federation harvested grains and leguminous crops throughout 93% of the planned areas, including maize for grain – 59.8%, reported the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat).
Agrarians harvested sunflower throughout 73.2% of the planned areas (on the same date last year – 71.8%).
Agricultural enterprises of all types of ownership (agricultural organizations, farmers, population) produced 96 mln tonnes of grains in bunker weight, 7.5 mln tonnes of sunflower seeds. In the current year, the country increased grain production by 53.3% compared to the previous year, sunflower production - up 52.1%, respectively.
As in previous years, agricultural organizations of the country produced the major share of grains (76.9%) and sunflower (71.8%). In farming enterprisesproduced 22% of grains and 27.8% of sunflower (in 2010 - 22.3% and 26.8%, respectively).

The inland waterways of Ukraine might be open to non-Ukrainian flag ship-owners by the start of navigation in spring 2011

2011-03-26T11:10:00.000Z

The Inland Waterways of Ukraine consist of the Dnipro River and a small section of the Danube. These are classified as Category E under the European Agreement on most internationally relevant waterways. The Dnipro River has a total length of 2,200 km with six water reservoirs and 1,811 km is navigable. The only part of the Danube in Ukraine is a short section in its delta region. There are 10 main river ports, all except one of which is on the Dnipro (the two ports on the Danube are classified as seaports).

The EU-27 the major participants of the world grain

2008-05-30T09:34:00.001+01:00

The EU-27 is considered as one of the major participants of the world grain market. In the current MY, the European Union produced 312 mln tons of grains, and plans to export over 26 mln tons, including 19.5 mln tons of wheat, according to the data of the USDA. At the same time, the EU still remains one of the traditional consumers of Ukrainian grains. In the current MY (July-February), the markets of the European Union countries imported 3.71 mln tons of Ukrainian grains, including 3 mln tons of wheat, which totals nearly 50% (from the forecasted volumes of the USDA) of wheat imports to the EU. Thus, the EU simultaneously represents towards Ukraine both as a stable consumer and a competitor-supplier of grains.