Insights and Stories of Pavel Polityuk

Feb. 27, 2013 at 7:35 pm CST

Favourable weather is likely to help the Black Sea region’s three top grain producers — Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan — restore grain output this year after a shattering fall in 2012, analysts and officials said. Russia, usually one of the world’s top wheat exporters, was hit by drought last year, […]

By Pavel Polityuk, Polina Devitt

Nov. 10, 2012 at 10:52 am CST

Grain traders expect the Ukrainian government to introduce curbs on wheat exports early in December but fear that instead of an official ban it might opt for informal restrictions, the grain lobby said Friday. Agriculture Minister Mykola Prysyazhnyuk said last month the government would halt wheat exports from Nov. 15 […]

By Pavel Polityuk

Oct. 19, 2012 at 5:47 pm CDT

Traders said Friday that Ukraine’s agriculture ministry would ban exports of wheat from Nov. 15 after bad weather hit the harvest, pushing up global wheat futures prices even though traders had expected the move. The ministry, however, is sticking to its earlier formula of allowing traders to export up to […]

By Pavel Polityuk

Oct. 16, 2012 at 5:46 pm CDT

Ukraine will impose no limits on exports of barley and maize in the current marketing season, Agriculture Minister Mykola Prysyazhnyuk said Tuesday, adding that the former Soviet republic would export over two million tonnes of grain this month. "Moreover, we will encourage the exports of feed grains," Prysyazhnyuk said on […]

By Pavel Polityuk

Aug. 16, 2012 at 6:35 pm CDT

Any effort by drought-stricken Russia to restrict grain exports is likely to provoke a similar move by neighboring Ukraine, leaving markets bereft of supply from two major Black Sea producers at a time when dry weather has slashed grain supply from India to Indiana. Importers moved swiftly to secure supply […]

By Pavel Polityuk, Polina Devitt