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Ukraine doubles grain exports to China

07.20.2018

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SFGCU says corn accounts for 90% of shipments.
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KYIV, UKRAINE — The State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine (SFGCU) said it shipped more than 1 million tonnes of grains to China National Complete Engineering Corp. (CCEC) in 2017-18, more than double the amount exported during the 2016-17 marketing year.

The SFGCU said corn accounts for about 90% of the grains shipped to CCEC.

In total, the SFGCU said it shipped more than 2.2 million tonnes of grains during the 2017-18 marketing year. Corn accounted for 40% of exports, followed by wheat, at 37%, and barley at 18%. The agency said exports of soybean, rapeseed and pea doubled compared with totals in 2016-17.