As of September 1, agricultural enterprises (excluding small-scale ones) and grain storage and processing enterprises of Ukraine, stocked 24.439 million tons of grains and sunflower seed, down by 2.7 million tons compared with the same date in 2015, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine declared.
In particular, the carry-over stocks of wheat reached 17.703 million tons, corn for grain – 1.335 million tons, barley – 4.058 million tons, rye – 194 thousand tons, and sunflower seed – 707 thousand tons (down by 16 thousand tons YoY).
According to the announcement, agrarian companies stored 14.878 million tons of grains. And the grain storage and processing enterprises stored 9.561 million tons of grains. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
