KYIV, Nov 10 - The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in November downgraded its forecast for sunflower harvest in Ukraine in 2017 by 500,000 tons compared with the forecast in October, to 13 million tons.
According to a report on the website of the U.S. department, the forecast for sunflower oil production in the 2017/2018 marketing year (MY, September-August) was reduced by 194,000 tons, to 5.59 million tons, exports by 150,000 tons, to 5 million tons.
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