Ukraine Wheat Exports Slow In October

In October, wheat exports from the Ukraine decreased by 14% to 1.3 mln tonnes, declare IA APK-Inform referring to customs data. Food wheat share in the total grain exports was 36%, they say.

Spain (336,100 tonnes), Egypt (262,400 tonnes) and Israel (132,200 tonnes) were the main buyers of Ukrainian wheat in the month.

During the first four months (July-October) of the 2008/09 marketing year, Ukraine has exported 4.4 mln tonnes of wheat as opposed to just 0.9 mln tonnes during the same period last season.

It is interesting that Spain was the biggest recipient as they were the UK's largest export home in 2007/08, taking three times as much UK wheat as any other country.