In Ukraine, foreign exchange earnings from agricultural exports amounted to $24.5 billion, — Koval
The Ukrainian agricultural sector set a second historical record in 2024 — $24.5 billion in foreign exchange earnings from agricultural exports.
This was reported by the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Vitalii Koval in an interview with Ukrainian Radio.
According to him, the best year in terms of foreign exchange earnings from agricultural exports was 2021, when, thanks to a high harvest, the agricultural sector earned $27.7 billion.
“To sum up 2024, it brought us the second result in terms of foreign exchange earnings from exports. We set a second historical record — the country received $24.5 billion from exports of agricultural products. This is a good indicator,” the minister noted.
He also emphasized that compared to 2023, the agricultural sector’s foreign exchange earnings from exports increased by more than $2 billion.
As previously reported by USM, exports from Ukraine grew by 13.4% due to the normalization of port operations.