The FINANCIAL — As of August 1, 2015, agricultural enterprises (excluding small-scale ones), and grain storage and processing enterprises of Ukraine, stocked 24.5 mln tonnes of grains (including 17.5 mln tonnes of wheat, 2.7 mln tonnes of barley, 2 mln tonnes of corn, 0.1 mln tonnes of rye), an increase of 17% compared with the same date in 2014, declared the State Statistics Service of Ukraine on August 14.
In particular, directly agrarian companies stored 16.1 mln tonnes of grains (up 16%), including 11.4 mln tonnes of wheat, 2.7 mln tonnes of barley, 2 mln tonnes of corn, and 0.1 mln tonnes of rye. But the grain storage and processing enterprises stocked 8.4 mln tonnes of grains (up 18% compared with last year), according to APK Inform.
As of August 1, in Ukraine sunflower seed carry-over stocks totaled 550 thsd tonnes, down 34% compared with the same date in 2014. Directly agricultural enterprises (except of small ones) stored 368 thsd tonnes of the oilseed, up 25% compared with August 1, 2014; but the enterprises engaged in processing and storage of sunflower seed – 182 thsd tonnes (down 64%).
