Ukraine: in 2019, the share of agricultural products in the exports exceeded 40% — Institute of Agrarian Economics

In 2019, the share of agro-industrial products in the general structure of exports from Ukraine reached 44.6%, and kept the leadership in its commodity structure, declared the Deputy Director at the National scientific center “Institute of Agrarian Economics”, Academician of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences (NAAS), Nikolai Pugachev, on February 18.

In particular, in 2019 Ukraine exported the record volumes of grains — 56.7 mln tonnes. Also, in the reporting period Ukraine shipped the record volumes of sunflower oil on foreign markets — 6.1 mln tonnes.

According to the Institute figures, last year Ukraine increased the deliveries of agricultural products to all three key sales regions — Asia, the European Union and Africa. At the same time, the shipment volume of domestic agricultural and food products also reached the maximum level for the whole time ever of the contemporary Ukraine.

It is specified that in the reporting period, Asian countries imported Ukrainian agricultural products at the sum of 9.4 bln USD, the EU — 7.5 bln USD, African countries — 3.3 bln USD, and the CIS countries — 1.5 bln USD. Generally, the four regions purchase more than 97% of agricultural products produced in Ukraine, added N.Pugachev.

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