This was reported by the press service of the agricultural Department of the Ukrainian Ministry of Economics, the correspondent of IA REGNUM.

It is noted that the current result of 6.2 million tons more than in the same period of last marketing year.

The Department clarifies that wheat Ukraine exported 12.8 million tons, barley — 3.4 million tons, maize — 6.2 mln tonnes, rye — 5 thousand tons.

Recall that in the past, 2018-2019 marketing year, Ukraine exported 49.7 million tons of grain, which is a record for all history of independence of the state.

Also today, the economy Ministry reported that Ukrainian farmers harvested 73 million tons of grain and leguminous crops from an area of 14.9 million hectares, or 98% of the forecast. It is clarified that maize collected 33 million tons from the area of 4.7 million hectares, or 94% of the forecast; buckwheat 89 thousand tons from the area of 67 thousand hectares, or 99% of the forecast; millet — 159 thousand tons with an area of 88 thousand hectares, or 98% of the forecast.