For the fourth year in a row, Ukraine has beaten its agricultural export record. In 2021, Ukraine exported $27.9bln worth of agri-food products, almost 25% more than the record figure of 2020 ($22.4B). This is the fourth year in a row that Ukraine has beaten the historical agricultural export record. Notice: JavaScript is required for this […]
Ukrainian farmers harvested a record 106 million tons of grains, beans and oilseeds this year. The top crop – corn – was up 11% over last year and hit 40 million tons. Wheat jumped by 29% to 32.4 million tons. And sunflower seeds were up 34%, to 16.3 million tons. “This is the absolute maximum in the entire history […]
Farming was the most profitable economic activity in Ukraine last year, netting $3 billion, reports the National Scientific Center Institute of Agrarian Economics. Of the nation’s farms, 83% made money, and 17% lost money. In 2019, a year of record grain harvests, profits were 13% higher — $3.4 billion. This year, with the grain harvest expected […]
“Phenomenal yields” are pushing Ukraine’s wheat harvest to an all time record this summer, the Canada-based Western Producer news site reports in an article headlined: “Ukraine shines as Black Sea wheat takes hit.” Russia’s harvest may drop 4% to 82 million tons and Kazakhstan production is to fall to 12 million tons. In contrast, Grain Trade […]
🔵 From today, Ukrainians can sell their farmland, a right largely lost after the communist takeover one century ago. “Ukrainians will become the real masters of their land, because they will be able not only to own it, but also to dispose of it freely,” Prime Minister Shmygal wrote yesterday on Telegram. “There is not a single […]
By James Brooke 🔵Well-timed rains are pushing this year’s harvest to a record 100 million tons of grains, oilseeds and beans. Twenty years ago, the combined harvest was 9.5 million tons. 🔵 The start of a limited farmland market on July 1 should boost Ukrainian harvest yields, Bloomberg reports in a story: Ukraine will introduce long-awaited land reforms next […]