Information published this week (Tuesday, May 17) by the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, shows that the volume of agricultural commodities exported in April was three times that which was exported in March.

The information was contained in an update of export volumes of certain agricultural commodities, as well as mode of transport of such commodities from Ukraine between March 1 to May 9.

In that timeframe, Ukraine has exported:

April exports of mentioned products were three-times higher than in March - around 970,000t versus 322,000t.

In March, the largest volume of product exported was corn (176,614t); followed by soya beans (36,036t); wheat (33,209t); sunflower oil (29,061t); oilcake/meals (28,954t); and soya bean oil, sunflower seeds and barley ( 11,550t, 9,535t and 6,599t).

In April, there was a massive jump in the volume of corn exported (600,966t); while sunflower seeds and sunflower oil, too, jumped significantly (104,049t and 129,607t). Soya beans increased to 57,159t; oilcake/meals jumped to 39,177t; soya beans went to 57,159t; and barley increased to 11,776t.

Wheat was the only product to drop significantly, to 9,199t.

For the nine days of May, the following was the state of play: