KIEV: Ukraine's 2019 wheat harvest is expected to rise to 27.72 million tonnes from 24.83 million tonnes last year, according to data from grain traders' union UZA.

Wheat exports could reach 21 million tonnes in the 2019/20 season, which started on July 1, compared with 15.53 million tonnes in 2018/19, the forecast data showed on Tuesday.

"Yields of wheat in 2019/20 will be higher due to improved weather conditions, so we expect record exports," Elena Neroba, a UZA adviser, told Reuters.

Ukraine had threshed 28.2 million tonnes of wheat from 99 percent of the sown area as of August 18, according to government data.

The agriculture ministry said wheat exports have increased 46 percent so far in the current season, to 2.53 million tonnes. It said Ukraine exported 15.58 million tonnes of wheat in the 2018/19 season.