Grain exports from Ukraine fell 12 times at the start of the season

Grain exports from Ukraine at the beginning of the new marketing year have decreased to almost zero.

As of July 4, 2025, in the first days of the new 2025/26 marketing year, Ukraine exported only 60 thousand tons of grain and leguminous crops. Interfax-Ukraine writes about this with reference to the State Customs Service.

This is 12 times less than for the same period last year. For comparison, as of July 5, 2024, the volume of shipments was 718 thousand tons.

In terms of crops, the situation looks as follows: wheat exports since the beginning of the new season amounted to 25 thousand tons, which is ten times less than last year (245 thousand tons); barley has not been exported at all (compared to 3 thousand tons a year ago); 34 thousand tons of corn were exported – this is 13 times less than for the same period of the 2024/25 MY (468 thousand tons).

Flour exports also fell sharply: 0.5 thousand tons compared to 1.1 thousand tons last year, with almost the entire volume being wheat flour.

Earlier, USM reported that businesses from Odesa and Mykolaiv regions are suspected of fraud with agricultural exports worth almost UAH 500 million.