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In January-February 2018, the foreign trade turnover of agro-industrial products totaled $ 3.7 billion, of which $ 2.8 billion was accounted for exports of Ukrainian agricultural and food products.
This was spoken by Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine on European Integration Olga Trofimtseva.
"For the first two months of this year, Ukrainian agricultural exports increased by $ 102.1 million compared with the corresponding period of 2017 and amounted to $ 2.8 billion. Our traditional export leaders are grain crops with a share of 35.3%, oil - 24.1%, and seeds of oilseeds -12%, "the deputy Minister emphasized.
According to Ms. Trofimtseva, during this period, exports of Ukrainian poultry meat increased significantly - by $ 29 million, eggs - by $ 11.4 million, butter - by $ 20 million, chocolate - by $ 7.5 million, grape wines - by $ 6.1 million.
"It is important to note that exports of Ukrainian products to the EU during this period increased by 28.1% or $ 224.7 million, and reached $ 1.025 billion. Thus, currently the EU accounts for 36.5% of our agricultural exports, "- the Deputy Minister on European Integration noted.
She added that the largest importer of Ukrainian agricultural and food products in January-February 2018 was India, where the export of products was totaled $ 335.9 million. The Top-5 importing countries list consists of Spain - $ 201.1 million, the Netherlands - $ 199.3 million, Egypt - $ 189.6 million, and Italy - $ 185.6 million.
Note: the key products of Ukrainian agricultural exports in January-February 2018.
No | Product name | Exports | |
tons | ths., USD | ||
1 | Sunflower, safflower or cotton oils | 851 847 | 641 253 |
2 | Maize | 4 107 808 | 626 046 |
3 | Wheat and mixture of wheat and rye | 1 912 625 | 323 471 |
4 | Soy | 761 979 | 286 258 |
5 | Oilcake and other solid wastes obtained from the extraction of vegetable fats and oils, with the exception of soya and peanut butter residues | 867 439 | 140 616 |
6 | Meat and offal of poultry | 44 445 | 68 866 |
7 | Sugar | 116 969 | 49 763 |
8 | Rape seeds | 84 226 | 36 819 |
9 | Barley | 207 471 | 35 514 |
10 | Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes | 3 567 | 32 553 |
11 | Soybean oil | 40 460 | 30 317 |
12 | Other nuts | 8 999 | 29 236 |
13 | Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk | 6 199 | 26 624 |
14 | Chocolate and other products containing cocoa | 9 756 | 26 523 |
15 | Coke and other solid waste of soybean oil | 69 374 | 24 721 |
16 | Margarine | 14 797 | 23 539 |
17 | Bakery, confectionery | 15 830 | 23 111 |
18 | Sugar confectionery | 12 788 | 20 173 |
19 | Poultry eggs | 16 556 | 19 058 |
20 | Wheat flour | 68 596 | 15 394 |
| Total for selected products: | 9 221 731 | 2479855 |
| TOTAL | 10 020 696 | 2 808 198 |