28 April 2019, 09:00,
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Flour export deliveries from Ukraine down 1.4x
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine reports that Ukraine exported 232.9 thou. tons of flour by April 24th, 2019.
This figure is 1.4x less than it was exported in last year's comparative period (371 thou. tons).
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Since the start of MY2018/19, wheat flour shipments amount to 231.8 thou. tons, whereas other types of flour — 1.1 thou. tons.
In MY2017/18, flour exports reached 413 thou. tons.
In Q1 2019, the production of wheat and wheat-rye flour in Ukraine decreased to 391 thou. tons, 12.8 per cent less from the corresponding period of 2018.