The FINANCIAL — In 2008 Ukraine harvested 26.9 mln tonnes of wheat, that consists of 12.5% of 5-grade and 50.8% of 6-grade wheat, Vasiliy Melnik, the head of the State Inspectorate of quality of agricultural products and monitoring of its markets, declared on October 3 during the Seventh International Conference "Grain industry 2008".
The rest of harvested grain consisted of 21.900 tonnes of 1-grade wheat, 106.700 tonnes of 2-grade, 957.700 tonnes of 3-grade and 2.16 mln tonnes of 4-grade wheat. According to V.Melnik, the volumes of grain damaged by corn-bug increased by 3-10%.
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