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UNIAN: Ukraine exports 17,000 tons of honey in the first half of the year

By UNIAN.

Published July 19, 2018 at 3:18 pm

A man behind bottles and jars of honey at the Kyiv honey fair in August. Ukrainian honey is one of the top products the nation exports to the West, although it rarely is sold under a producer's brand name.

Photo by Oleg Petrasiuk

Ukrainian companies exported 17,000 tonnes of honey in the first half of 2018, which was 43 percent down year-over-year (y-o-y).

“Ukraine’s honey exports in the first half of 2018 shrank by 43 percent compared to the same period in 2017 and amounted to almost 17,000 tons worth $37 million,” Anna Burka, an expert from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), wrote on Facebook on July 19.