Ukraine has extended grain export quotas to include the first quarter of 2011 and increased the volume to 4.2 million tonnes from the initial 2.7 million, according to a government resolution published on Tuesday. The resolution was adopted by the government on December 6 but has not been published or enforced as yet.
Last week Ukrainian Farm Minister Mykola Prysyazhnyuk said the government was reconsidering previous plans to extend grain export quotas to the second half of the 2010/11 season. But earlier this month, Prysyazhnyuk said the government had extended the quotas, set to expire on December 31, until March 31, 2011. Ukraine's economy ministry in December proposed that the government issue additional quotas for exports of 500,000 tonnes of wheat and 1 million of maize to end-March.