Ukraine: Importers of flour, cereals, and oil open processing enterprises in Africa

Published 2024년 9월 1일

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Ukrainian expert Vladyslav Sedykh identified challenges in expanding agricultural exports to Tanzania, a traditional market for Ukrainian wheat and sunflower oil. He noted a decline in Tanzania's imports of wheat flour, bran, and cereals due to increased domestic production, affecting Ukraine's competitive position. Furthermore, Ukraine's dominance in the Tanzanian sunflower oil market has significantly diminished, with the country now importing hardly any sunflower oil from Ukraine. This is partly due to Tanzania's import duties on crude and refined oil, which have encouraged local processing of imported crude oil, reducing import dependence.

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The expert of the Ukrainian-African trade mission, Vladyslav Sedykh, told about this during the conference "Africa for agricultural exporters: ways to restore lost markets". "Tanzania imports soft wheat, and Ukraine can compete for this market. But it is necessary to take into account that the market is also falling. The volumes of wheat flour (supplied by India and Turkey), bran, and cereals also decrease significantly every year due to the growth of domestic production. Those importers who supplied these categories of goods a few years ago are already producing these products domestically," says Vladyslav Sedykh. He adds that Ukraine is losing its share in the sunflower oil market in Tanzania. In 2020, Ukraine ranked first among its imports with an indicator of 11-12 million tons per year, ...

Source: AgroPortal.ua