The FINANCIAL — As of June 26, Ukraine harvested 1 mln tons of grains, declared Leonid Kozachenko, the president of Ukrainian agrarian confederation. Five oblasts provide the harvesting campaign, marked he.
According to him, in the current year the harvest will total nearly 39 mln tons. At the same time, high offer level of grains at the beginning of the marketing year will probably cause the essential reduction of the domestic prices, warned the expert.
Also, agrarians do not have the necessary volumes of resources for providing of the harvesting campaign, according to L.Kozachenko.
As a reminder, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine forecasts the grain harvest-2009 at the level of 42-43 mln tons as opposed to 53.3 mln tons in 2008.
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