Insights and Stories of Pavel Polityuk

Sep. 6, 2024 at 9:36 am CDT

Kyiv | Reuters – Ukraine’s food exports by sea and river totalled 4.13 million metric tons in August, down from 4.25 million tons in July, agriculture ministry data showed on Friday. That included 2.18 million tons of wheat, 553,732 tons of corn and 454,641 tons of barley, the data showed. […]

By Pavel Polityuk

Sep. 4, 2024 at 9:05 am CDT

Kyiv | Reuters – Ukrainian farmers have started sowing winter grain crops for the 2025 harvest, but the availability of moisture in the soil in most regions of Ukraine is extremely low, state weather forecasters said on Wednesday. In recent years, Ukraine has often experienced a lack of soil moisture […]

By Pavel Polityuk

Sep. 3, 2024 at 11:02 am CDT

Kyiv | Reuters – Ukraine’s farm ministry has agreed with traders and agriculture associations to limit wheat exports in the 2024/25 July-June season to 16.2 million metric tons, the ministry said on Tuesday. The government and traders annually sign a memorandum in which officials promise to maintain the existing terms […]

By Pavel Polityuk

Aug. 12, 2024 at 9:38 am CDT

Kyiv/London | Reuters – Ukraine is scrambling to ship as much grain as it can this summer, taking advantage of military gains it has made in the Black Sea area to boost exports even as Russia has attacked its ports. Ukraine is a major global wheat and corn grower and […]

By Jonathan Saul, Pavel Polityuk, Tom Balmforth

Feb. 5, 2024 at 9:49 am CST

Ukrainian agrarian unions have asked the government to do everything possible to maintain free access to the European market for their food products, the UCAB association said on Monday.

By Pavel Polityuk, Reuters