Ukraine has increased the export of cheap types of cereals

For the current year, the total export volume of grain products amounted to 192 thousand tons. In the pre-war years, all processing enterprises together "rocked" the export of grain products to 207 thousand tons, and with the beginning of the war, Ukraine requested up to 163 thousand tons. In 2023, only 133 thousand tons of cereals were exported. Oleksandr Yasynskyi, commercial director of Terra LLC, said this, AgroPortal reports. "The leaders are peas, but this year it will be almost completely exported with grain, and processors will have nothing left. The export of oat flakes and oat groats together is 12 thousand tons, corn groats and millet also have a low export potential. Only 300-500 tons of barley, pearl barley, and wheat groats were exported 6-7 years ago, and now the export figure has increased almost fourfold and is 1.5 thousand tons," he noted. The expert added that today the demand for expensive cereals (types of rice, couscous, bulgur) has decreased, but high demand ...