Ukraine dropped out of the top 5 world barley exporters
Barley
Ukraine
Published Jun 3, 2023
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Ukrainian farmers have reduced the area with barley for the 2023 harvest, reported Marina Marinich, a grain market analyst at UkrAgroConsult. She noted that winter barley acreage has been significantly reduced (to 535,000 ha) as this is the first autumn planting campaign since the start of a full-scale invasion, and southern Ukraine, where winter barley is normally grown, is still partially occupied. As for spring barley, the favorable period for sowing has already ended, and the plan of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine has not been implemented. As of May 25, only 763 thousand hectares were sown. "Depending on the own harvest and the harvest of competitors, until 2022 Ukraine ranked 2-4 among the main exporters of barley, but after the partial occupation of the southern regions, it fell to the 6th place," the expert noted. From July 2022 to May 24 of the current year (11 months of the season), the export of barley from Ukraine amounted to 2,624 thousand tons (5,676 ...
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