Ukraine is seeking to export corn to the U.S., where this year’s harvest was reduced by the worst drought in half a century, Agriculture Minister Mykola Prysyazhnyuk said.
“This would be a very important confirmation that our product has quality and meets all standards,” Prysyazhnyuk told reporters in Kyiv today. Ukraine is trying to agree with the U.S. on sanitary standards at the moment, he said.
The eastern European nation increased corn plantings for the 2012 harvest by 26 percent to 4.4 million hectares, government data show. Ukraine will ship abroad about 12 million tons of corn in the year ending Aug. 31, Prysyazhnyuk said last month. The worst drought in the U.S. since 1956 reduced this year’s harvest, sending corn and soybean prices to records.
