KIEV, Aug. 28 – Ukraine plans to export 17 million tons of corn in the 2015/16 agricultural year (July-June), 9.75% less than the previous agricultural year (18.837 million tons), said Agricultural Policy and Food Minister Oleksiy Pavlenko.
He said that the gross corn harvest this would be 24.5 million tons.
"Taking into account ending stocks, corn supply on the Ukrainian market would be 28.7 million tons. The needs of the domestic market amount to 7.8 million tons. It is planned to export almost 17 million tons," reads the report.
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