They have been reduced by almost half exports its basic agricultural products Ukrainian after starting it warcompared to the same period in 2021, according to data from the Ukrainian Ministry of Agriculture released late Monday night (22/8).
Tomorrow, Wednesday (24/8), marks six months since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which Moscow describes as a “special military operation”. Due to the conflicts, the Ukrainian ports in Black Sea were excluded, while much of the crop was not harvested or destroyed.
From 19.5 million tons, exports of agricultural products decreased to 10 million tons
Exports agricultural products between February 24 and August 15 this year fell to 10 million tonnes from about 19.5 million in the same period last year, Ukrainian ministry data show.
Also the harvest of grain for 2022 in Ukraine is forecast to decrease to around 50 million tons from the record 86 million tons in 2021.
From February 24 to August 15 this year, Ukraine has, as reported by the Athens News Agency, exported 3.8 million tons of corn, 1.4 million tons of sunflower seeds, almost 1 million tons of sunflower oil and about 640,000 tons of wheat, according to the data of the ministry.
Ukraine, whose food production can, according to the government, feed up to 400 million people, also exported barley, soybeans and soybean oil, sunflowers and soybean meal.
At the end of July came the blockade of three Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea based on an agreement between Moscow and Kyiv brokered by the UN and Turkey.
However, even after the opening of the ports, Ukraine’s agricultural exports are significantly lower than before the war, when the country exported up to 6 million tons of grain a month.
Last week the agriculture ministry announced that grain exports for the 2022/23 season had fallen by 51.6% to 2.99 million tonnes as of August 19 from a year earlier.
Grain exports for the 2021/22 season, which ended on June 30, by contrast rose 8.5 percent to 48.5 million tonnes, thanks to a large export volume before Russia invaded Ukraine.
Source: News Beast
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