UNIAN: Ukraine doubles grain exports to China

By UNIAN.

Published July 20, 2018 at 12:30 pm

A combine harvester gathers grain from a field in the village of Mala Divytsa on July 27, 2015. The three brand new combines working these fields about 100 kilometres (60 miles) north of Kiev are integral elements in the maddening state of affairs the crisis-wracked ex-Soviet state faces. Ukraine's total crop production reached a post-Soviet record of 63 million tons in 2014 and is on course to nearly match that mark this year.

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The State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine (SFGCU) in the 2017-2018 marketing year (MY, July 2017-June 2018) doubled grain exports to China National Complete Engineering Corporation (CCEC) from the 2016-2017 MY, to over 1 million tons.

“According to the year’s results, PJSC SFGCU shipped over 1 million tons of grain crops to its main partner [CCEC], which exceeds the same indicator of the last year’s supplies exactly twice,” the SFGCU’s press service said in a statement.