OREANDA-NEWS. March 01, 2013. Since the beginning of the marketing year 2012-2013 agrarian producers have already supplied to foreign markets nearly 17.6 million tons of grain. Overall, in the 2012/2013 marketing year, Ukraine exported over 17.6 million tons of grain that is 4.7 million tons more than in the same period of the previous marketing year. So far, Ukraine is actively working to expand markets for domestic grain. This was announced by the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Mykola Prysyazhnyuk.

The Minister said that since the beginning of 2012/2013 marketing year domestic agrarian producers supplied to foreign markets 9 million tonnes of corn, 6.1 million tonnes of wheat and 2 million tonnes of barley.

"At the same time, we are working to expand the potential markets in Europe and Asia. Now a number of investment projects in the agricultural sector are being prepared, which remains one of the most attractive. For example, in the next two years is planned to implement large-scale investment projects in the field of agricultural machinery and irrigation systems, which in turn will help to increase the gross grain harvest," Mykola Prysyazhnyuk said.

It should be recalled, in 2012, the EU imported the largest amount of grain - 7.7 million tons worth USD 1.9 billion. In addition, among the main importers of domestic grain were Egypt - 5.5 million tons, and Saudi Arabia - 1.9 million tons.