During the first nine months of 2016, the export volumes of agricultural products from Ukraine to the European Union countries increased by 15% YoY, the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Taras Kutovoy declared.
Ukraine managed to take up most of the annual quotas for supplying to the EU in the first quarter of 2016, he added.
According to the minister, the sales of commodities of the foodstuff industry form one fourth of revenues in the general volume of industrial products sold in Ukraine.
During eight months of the current year the volume of sales totaled 232.9 billion UAH, Kutovoy said. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)