Ukraine increased wheat exports through its seaports to 220,100 tonnes in the first 10 days of October from 112,900 tonnes in the same period of September, a local agriculture constancy said on Wednesday.
ProAgro said in statement that feed wheat dominated exports with Ukraine supplying wheat mostly to Indonesia, South Korea and Spain. Analysts quoted port data as showing that Ukraine had exported 57,800 tonnes of wheat to Indonesia, 55,000 tonnes to South Korea and 48,700 tonnes to Spain.
Ukraine also exported 25,000 tonnes of wheat to Italy, 27,500 tonnes to Algeria and 6,200 tonnes to Israel. Ukraine, which plans to harvest at least 40 million tonnes of grain in 2004 and to export up to 12 million tonnes, sold abroad 2.18 million tonnes in the first three months of the 2004/05 July-June season, including 1.2 million in September.
Ukraine exported 540,000 tonnes of various grains in the same period of 2003/04 and 3.456 million in July-September 2002/03. In September, exports included 389,000 tonnes of wheat, 800,0000 tonnes of barley, 8,000 tonnes of maize and 4,000 tonnes of rye. sunseed harvest
Ukraine has almost completed its 2004 sunflower seed harvesting, threshing 3.118 million tonnes of sunseed from about 93 percent of sunflower area, Ukrainian sunoil producers' union said on Wednesday.
Ukroliyaprom said in a statement that farmers had harvested 3.179 million hectares of sunflower. Sunseed yield averaged 0.98 tonnes per hectare.
Ukraine's Agriculture Ministry said on Tuesday the country's sunseed crop was likely to fall to about 3.2 million tonnes clean weight in 2004 from a record 4.2 million in 2003.
It also said a fall in the crop could cause a decrease in sunoil output to between 1.2 and 1.3 million tonnes in the 2004/05 season from about 1.4 million in 2003/04.
Smaller crop could also cause a decrease in Ukraine's sunseed exports to between 70,000 and 150,000 tonnes in 2004/05 from about 975,000 tonnes in 2003/04.
Ukraine is one of the world's leading sunseed producers, with its output accounting for around 10 percent of world production.
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