Ukraine continues to increase exports of agricultural products, - Olga Trofimtseva
5 months ago
Such data was reported by the Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine on European Integration Olga Trofimtseva.
Exports of Ukrainian agricultural and food products reached $ 14.7 billion in the 10 months of the current year and showed an increase of 22.7% or $ 2.7 billion compared to the corresponding period of 2016. While imports increased by 8% and amounted to $ 3.6 billion.
Such data was reported by the Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine on European Integration Olga Trofimtseva.
"It is worthy to mention that India (11.3% of total exports), Egypt (7.5%) and the Netherlands (6.9%) have formed the three leading countries among the importers of our agricultural products in January-October 2017. At the same time, the global regional breakdown of agricultural exports has not changed: we have exported to Asia more than 42% of our products, to the EU countries - 31,9% and to African countries - 14,7%",- said the Deputy Minister for European Integration.
She added that during the ten months of the current year, supplies to the world markets of following products has increased considerably: apricot, cherry, peaches, plum - $ 8.6 million, wheat flour - to $ 17.7 million, sugar - $ 121.4 million, meat and offal of poultry - to almost $ 83 million, butter - to $ 69.1 million, frozen beef - to $ 36.1 million, bakery and confectionery products - to $ 23.8 million, extracts of malt, flour products, cereals - $ 52.6 million.
"These statistics confirm our preliminary forecasts for increasing the annual volumes of agrarian exports by 15-20% in 2017 compared to the previous year", - summed up Olga Trofimtseva.
For reference: The list of products that were most exported during January-October 2017
No. | Product name | Export | |
tons | Thousand US Dollars | ||
| Sunflower, safflower or cotton oil | 4 890 702 | 3 645 971 |
| Maize | 15 566 335 | 2 423 724 |
| Wheat and a mixture of wheat and rye | 14 217 906 | 2 248 791 |
| Rape seeds | 1 829 251 | 750 218 |
| Soy | 1 923 946 | 722 087 |
| Barley | 4 615 984 | 672 006 |
| Oilcake and other solid wastes obtained from the extraction of vegetable fats and oils, with the exception of soya and peanut butter residues | 3 945 262 | 655 326 |
| Meat and by-products of Poultry | 228 635 | 322 958 |
| Cigars, cigarillos and cigarettes with tobacco or its substitutes | 26 006 | 234 056 |
| Sugar | 484 915 | 232 595 |
| Vegetables beans dried | 510 389 | 128 612 |
| Chocolate and other products containing cocoa | 48 220 | 118 446 |
| Bakery, confectionery | 82 623 | 113 497 |
| Soybean oil | 143 863 | 108 179 |
| Extracts of malt; flour products, cereals | 55 262 | 103 337 |
| Honey | 53 716 | 103 206 |
| Butter and other fats made from milk | 23 493 | 96 813 |
| Sugar confectionery | 65 842 | 93 268 |
| Oil cake and other solid waste of soybean oil | 236 964 | 83 874 |
| Wheat flour | 356 930 | 77 027 |
| Total, from selected products: | 49 306 244 | 12 933 991 |
| TOTAL | 53 412 328 | 14 696 166 |