Ukrainian wheat exports in the 2016/17 season could fall to about 3.5 million tonnes due to poor weather, from expected sales of 16.5 million tonnes in 2015/16, a senior agriculture ministry source said on Monday, quoting traders' forecasts. Excessively dry weather in eastern, central and southern Ukraine has prompted farmers to stop winter sowing, leaving around 11 percent of the area unsown ministry data showed. Ukraine's leading agriculture consultancy, UkrAgroConsult, on Monday cut its forecast for Ukraine's 2016 wheat harvest by about 8 percent to 17.5 million tonnes, citing the poor condition of sprouted crops.
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