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DNIPROPETROVSK REGION - The Ukrainian government is going to ask the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine to check the rates set for services offered by private grain storage facilities, said Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

"We will involve the Antimonopoly Committee to let those owners who set too high prices [for grain storage] know their place," she said at a press conference in Dnipropetrovsk region on Thursday.

In her words, grain storage rates at state-owned grain elevators are lower on average by 30-40% than at others.

At its visiting meeting to Dnipropetrovsk region on Thursday, the Cabinet of Ministers passed an umber of measures that will be conducive to reducing the price of grain transshipment at state-owned ports, she added.