Ukraine increased vegetable oil exports to the EU by more than a quarter

Ukraine has increased the supply of various types of vegetable oils to the territory of the European Union since July last year (the beginning of the agricultural year in the country for oilseeds and their processed products - ROSNG) by 26 percent or 316 thousand tons (in official statistics, instead of liters, milliliters, etc. are indicated tons) from the same date last year to one and a half million tons. This is reported in the European Commission report. Most noticeably, it increased the export of rapeseed – 2.1 times to 98,375 tons. In exact figures, this is 42,425 tons more than last year. Thanks to this, the share of its supplies increased from 16.3 to 38.3 percent. The reason for this breakthrough increase can be attributed to the very serious demand in the bloc countries for this type of oil. Independence's competitors in this market are Great Britain, the United Arab Emirates, Serbia and Belarus. The first of them increased supplies to 53,950, the second - 23,500, the ...